# Mountain Landscape with a Castle [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [DAHL, Johan Christian Clausen]() - Date: 1801-1850 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 177 x 246 cm ## Commentary Although better know for his smaller scale works and plein-air sketches, Johan Christian Dahl's large, naturalistic landscapes were considered by his contemporaries to be his major artistic achievement. This work was painted in difficult conditions, at Engelholm, a windswept coastal town on the north west coast of the Scania peninsular, Sweden, a short boat trip from Elsinore. <p> <table align=left cellpadding=5 border=1 width=320 bgcolor="\#99cccc"> <tr valign=middle><td><img src="/support/gif/listen.gif" border=0 valign=middle> Suggested listening \(streaming mp3, 5 minutes\):<br><a href="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/music1/19\_cent/grieg\_piano\_concerto\_1.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=350,height=350'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return true"><b>Edvard Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor Op. 16 \(1st movement\)</b></a> </td></tr></table> ## Related artworks - [Cloud Study, Thunder Clouds over the Palace Tower at Dresden]() - [Cloud Study with Horizon]() - [Dyrehaven near Copenhagen]() - [Eruption of the Vesuvius]() - [Eruption of the Volcano Vesuvius]() - [Morning after a Stormy Night]() - [Two Belfries at Sunset, Copenhagen]() - [View of Dresden at Full Moon]() - [Winter Landscape near Vordingborg, Denmark]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()