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The Corvette "Galathea" Lying to in order to Send Help to the Brig "St Jean"
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When leaving Danish waters on the corvette Galathea in the spring of 1839, Eckersberg saw – on 12 May – their companion, the brig St Jean, being accidentally rammed by a Finnish merchant vessel, sustaining such damage that its captain had to abandon the journey and seek safe harbour in Frederikshavn instead (Eckersberg, 2009, 825). Eckersberg depicted the accident that summer – although he did not show the actual collision, but instead the subsequent situation in which the Galathea assisted St Jean. In keeping with his artistic temperament, he avoided the drama to which the situation could so easily have lent itself. Instead, Eckersberg soberly recorded the ships’ positions in relation to each other during the rescue operation. Coolly observant, he recalls the impression made by the sunlit sky over the sea, entirely devoid of the Romantic atmosphere hovering over his early sunset landscape from Møn [cat.12].
Værkdatering: (1839)
Udført efter rejsen med "Galathea" over Nordsøen forsommeren 1839. Formodentlig fuldført i løbet af sommeren 1839. Et andet maleri med motiv fra rejsen, "Korvetten ' Galathea' i en storm på Nordsøen" (KMS1116), blev fuldført den 12. juli 1839 (Eckersbergs dagbøger, 2009, bd. 2, p. 834 note 3).
Title: The Corvette "Galathea" Lying to in order to Send Help to the Brig "St Jean"
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When leaving Danish waters on the corvette Galathea in the spring of 1839, Eckersberg saw – on 12 May – their companion, the brig St Jean, being accidentally rammed by a Finnish merchant vessel, sustaining such damage that its captain had to abandon the journey and seek safe harbour in Frederikshavn instead (Eckersberg, 2009, 825).
Eckersberg depicted the accident that summer – although he did not show the actual collision, but instead the subsequent situation in which the Galathea assisted St Jean.
In keeping with his artistic temperament, he avoided the drama to which the situation could so easily have lent itself.
Instead, Eckersberg soberly recorded the ships’ positions in relation to each other during the rescue operation.
Coolly observant, he recalls the impression made by the sunlit sky over the sea, entirely devoid of the Romantic atmosphere hovering over his early sunset landscape from Møn [cat.
12].
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