View of the Roman Forum

Name: CARL HØLSOE (DANISH, 1863-1935)
Brand: View of the Roman Forum
Price: 4000.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised GBP 5,040

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GBP 5,000 - GBP 8,000

Closed: 14 Jul 2022

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CARL HØLSOE (DANISH, 1863-1935)

View of the Roman Forum

Price Realised GBP 5,040

Closed: 14 Jul 2022

Price Realised GBP 5,040

Closed: 14 Jul 2022

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CARL HØLSOE (DANISH, 1863-1935)
View of the Roman Forum
signed 'C. Holsöe.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
17 x 15¹⁄₂ in. (43.2 x 39.4 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 24 March 1988, lot 95, where purchased by the present owner.

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Lot Essay

Following in the footsteps of Danish Golden Age painters such as Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (1783–1853), and two years before the journey of Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864–1916), Carl Holsøe travelled to Italy as part of his artistic training. Awarded a study grant to travel to Rome in 1897, Holsøe captured sites of ruined antiquity, such as the Temple of Castor and Pollux in the Roman Forum. Rendering the Italian light and its effect on various ruins would give him a fresh outlook to his approach of Northern Light upon his return to Denmark, where he swapped landscapes such as these for domestic interior scenes. Very few of the of his works from this time are known to remain.