Caspar David Friedrich

German, 1774 - 1840

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Drawn and painted with ink and graphite, boulders and rocks painted in hazy, soft tones of fawn and sable brown fill the bottom third of this horizontal landscape drawing. Placid water leads back to a horizon that blends with the bone-brown sky above. A pale, cream-white full moon hangs low in the sky near the center of the composition.
Caspar David Friedrich, Moonrise on an Empty Shore, 1837/1839, brush and brown ink over graphite on wove paper, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 1992.11.1

Moonrise on an Empty Shore

Caspar David Friedrich · 1837/1839 · brush and brown ink over graphite on wove paper ·  Accession ID  1992.11.1

Two minuscule people stand in the center of an expansive, rugged landscape dusted with snow in this horizontal painting. Snow nestles in among the tawny-brown ridges that roll like waves back to the horizon, which comes almost halfway up the composition. The people are painted with a few dabs of fawn brown, and they stand on a spit of land to our right of center. Mountainous ridges along the horizon are shaded in slate blue under a steely-blue sky.
Caspar David Friedrich, Northern Landscape, Spring, c. 1825, oil on canvas, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 2004.113.1

Northern Landscape, Spring

Caspar David Friedrich · c. 1825 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2004.113.1

A grassy field leading back to hazy mountains under a sun shown in eclipse are painted with muted earthy tones in this horizontal watercolor. The field along the bottom third of the sheet is painted in soft peanut brown, and a line of trees on the far side are misty sage green. Ridges of the mountains are layered like sheets of torn paper under a parchment-white sky. The sun at the top center is mostly covered by a silvery disk.
Caspar David Friedrich, New Moon or Solar Eclipse above the Riesengebirge Mountains, 1810 or 1828/1835, pen and gray ink with watercolor over graphite on wove paper, Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Purchased as the Gift of Helen Porter and James T. Dyke and Dian Woodner, 2007.111.10

New Moon or Solar Eclipse above the Riesengebirge Mountains

Caspar David Friedrich · 1810 or 1828/1835 · pen and gray ink with watercolor over graphite on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2007.111.10

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1907

  • Ref Number: XII.464
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