A couple conversing in a stable yard, with a double rainbow overhead, from 'Linear Perspective, Applied to the Art of Painting'

1841

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: Sheet (Trimmed): 4 in. × 3 3/4 in. (10.2 × 9.5 cm)
Collection no.: 66.623.12
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg. A couple conversing in a stable yard, with a double rainbow overhead, from 'Linear Perspective, Applied to the Art of Painting'. Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1966. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

A couple conversing in a stable yard, with a double rainbow overhead, from 'Linear Perspective, Applied to the Art of Painting' — Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg. 1841.

Medium: Etching. Dimensions: Sheet (Trimmed): 4 in. × 3 3/4 in. (10.2 × 9.5 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1966.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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