View from a Window in Toldbodvej Looking towards the Citadel in Copenhagen  1833

Købke spent most of his childhood at the Citadel in Copenhagen where his father was a baker. In 1832 he rented a studio on Toldbodvej (now Esplanaden), which offered him a new view on his childhood home. From the studio window he could look over the neighbour opposite to the Citadel. [br] [b]The pictorial effect[/b] It was not, however, the home as such that interested ...