File talk:Dahl - Copenhagen Harbour by Moonlight.jpg

Trouble finding accession number

I'm not able to find this work in the Metropolitan Museum Collection Database - let me know if you can obtain the accession number so I can list it here. Thanks! Dcoetzee (talk) 23:00, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

It seems dubious that this painting should belong to the Metropolitan Museum in New York, but it might have been on loan to them. The work's actual title is "Københavns havn i månelys" (which corresponds to the English title). It was produced in 1817, and the leading Danish artists' registry ["Weilbach - Dansk kunstnerleksikon", 4th edition, published 1994-2000] notes that it belongs to "Neue Pinakothek", Munich, Germany.[1] I believe that this is as good a source as it gets, since this webpage is run by the official Heritage Agency of Denmark (Kulturarvsstyrelsen). It is of course a possibility, that we might be dealing with a recent transaction between the two museums. Unfortunately, the Neue Pinatotek website gives no results either. Valentinian ^{T / C} 08:16, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

It belongs to a private collection. It was written on the usual small table beside the picture on the wall in the Met, when I made the photo. I have the photo of this small table, too.

It was not on exposition in the Neue Pinakothek last November, when I was there. The only Dahl painting exhibited was the Frederiksholm Canal in Copenhagen with Christian IV's Brewery, also from 1817.--Szilas (talk) 12:08, 14 March 2010 (UTC)