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The Cloisters, San Lorenzo fuori le mura, 1824. Oil on canvas.
Oil on canvas · 57.7 × 78.8 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- The Cloisters, San Lorenzo fuori le mura
- Artist
- Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (Danish, 1783–1853)
- Date
- 1824
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 57.7 × 78.8 cm (22 5/8 × 31 in.); Framed: 76.2 × 97.2 cm (30 × 38 1/4 in.)
- Credit line
- European Painting Purchase fund; through prior gift of Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1783–1853
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.