Home Online catalogues True to Nature. Open-air Painting 1780-1870 120. Carl Frederik Aagaard Odense 1833 – 1895 Copenhagen Clouds Scudding across the Skyline, c. 1855-1860 Aagaard moved to Copenhagen at the age of nineteen to study printmaking at the Academy, under the guidance of his older brother who specialized in woodcuts. There he also studied decorative painting, but soon abandoned classes at the Academy to take up landscape painting and trained under P.C. Skovgaard (1817–1875). He undertook extensive study tours of Italy in the 1870s, producing a large body of sketches on his travels which served as the basis for his studio paintings. This relatively large oil on paper predates the artist’s travels, and the landscape feels typically Danish in its colours, light and atmosphere. Almost a meteorological portrait, Aagaard clearly delighted in the careful definition of the scudding clouds. The artist kept this picture his whole life, and it remained with his family for a couple of generations before appearing on the market.
Aagaard moved to Copenhagen at the age of nineteen to study printmaking at the Academy, under the guidance of his older brother who specialized in woodcuts. There he also studied decorative painting, but soon abandoned classes at the Academy to take up landscape painting and trained under P.C. Skovgaard (1817–1875). He undertook extensive study tours of Italy in the 1870s, producing a large body of sketches on his travels which served as the basis for his studio paintings. This relatively large oil on paper predates the artist’s travels, and the landscape feels typically Danish in its colours, light and atmosphere. Almost a meteorological portrait, Aagaard clearly delighted in the careful definition of the scudding clouds. The artist kept this picture his whole life, and it remained with his family for a couple of generations before appearing on the market.