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Eruption of the Volcano Vesuvius, 1821. Oil on canvas.
Oil on canvas · 98.3 × 137.5 cm · SMK – National Gallery of Denmark · Romanticism
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- Museum title
- Eruption of the Volcano Vesuvius
- Artist
- Johan Christian Dahl (Norwegian, 1788–1857)
- Date
- 1821
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 98.3 × 137.5 cm
- Credit line
- SMK – National Gallery of Denmark
- Image license
- Public Domain Mark 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- SMK – National Gallery of Denmark
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.