The Harbour of Copenhagen from the Esplanade between Langelinie and Toldboden; verso: Sketch of a Standing Man, 1809, Graphite, brush and grey ink, grey washes; verso: graphite. Framing line in pen and black ink, sheet: 13 1/4 x 18 3/16 in. (33. 7 x 46. 2 cm), Drawings, Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (Danish, Blakrog 1783?1853 Copenhagen), This early drawing by the 'father of Danish painting' prefigures in many ways the interests that were to occupy Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg in his maturity: landscape and topography, marine painting, perspectival drawing (an obsession of his, here noticeable in the exact depiction of the slightly varying positions of the cannons), the almost mathematical principles underlying his masterful compositions, and a pure and elegant drawing style akin to that of his future teacher, Jacques-Louis David