A Gothic Church in an Oak Grove

c. 1810

Karl Friedrich Schinkel

Artist, German, 1781 - 1841

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph on China paper

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • Accession

    2003.33.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Winkler 1975, no. 8, State i/ii

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Wilhelm Soldan, Berlin (not in Lugt). (C. G. Boerner Inc., New York); purchased 2003 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2004

  • Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings: Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2004 - 2005

Bibliography

1975

  • Winkler, Rolf A. Die Fruhzeit der deutschen Lithographie. Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1975.

Inscriptions

across bottom of image: Versuch die lieblich sehnsuchtsvolle Wehmuth auszudrücken welche das herz beim Klange des Gottesdienstes aus der Kirche herschallend erfüllt (An attempt to express the sweet melancholy, replete with yearning, which fills the heart upon hearing the sounds of worship ringing out from the church)

Wikidata ID

Q76346928

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