Provenance

Professor Ernst Ehlers

German, 1835 - 1925

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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

Bibliography

1921

  • Ref Number: referred to in nos
    Lugt, referred to in nos. 862 and 1391.