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Peder Balke, “The North Cape by Moonlight” (1848), oil on canvas, 24 7/16 x 33 7/16 inches (62 x 85 cm), private collection, Oslo (all images courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art) I did not know of ...

Peder Balke: Painter of Northern Light, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from April 10 through July 9, will be the first exhibition in the United States devoted to this singular, visionary ...

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I had positioned myself on a rocky plateau some 100ft above the sea,’ wrote Peder Balke, ‘and I felt I had to hold on tight to the cliff when the backwash hurled itself against the rock face and with ...

Peder Balke—a visual artist of the mid-1800s—painted dramatic scenes of the Norwegian northern provinces. Struck by a significant feeling of insignificance while traveling, Balke repeatedly attempted ...

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Peder Balke (1804–1887) is one of the most original painters of 19th-century Scandinavia. Born on the Norwegian island of Helgøya, he attended art school in Christiania (now Oslo), before studying ...

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