ANCHER, Michael Peter
(b. 1849, Rutsker, d. 1927, Skagen)

The Lifeboat is Taken through the Dunes

1883
Oil on canvas, 171 x 221 cm
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

With this painting Michael Ancher continued his tale of the heroic fishermen of Skagen. An epic on a grand scale, the narrative opened with the question Will He Weather the Point, went on to a happy preliminary end, as it were, with A Crew is Rescued and was finally concluded in The Drowned Fisherman.




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