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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