View of Frederiksborg Castle from the North-East. Artist: Johan Christian Dahl (Norwegian, Bergen 1788-1857 Dresden). Dimensions: Sheet: 16 11/16 × 25 7/8 in. (42.4 × 65.8 cm). Date: 19th century.This drawing is related to two celebrated paintings by the artist showing Frederiksborg, the seventeenth-century royal palace at Hillerød, north of Copenhagen. The paintings, one in the collection of the Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, and the other in a private collection, offer an identical view of the palace in daylight and in moonlight. The drawing combines the figures of the former with the dramatically lit sky of the latter. Squared with graphite, it can be assumed that the sheet preceded both paintings, as there would have been little reason to make such a detailed model after the completion of the paintings. On the basis of letters, the drawing can be dated to 1817, the year in which both paintings were made. Dahl's handwritten instruction to omit the chimney overlapping one of