Inscription
verso, at top left, in graphite by a later hand: Friedrich mit [?]; upper left, in graphite by a later hand: azo/bs; lower left, in graphite by a later hand: mz/ma
Marks and Labels
none
Provenance
Professor Ernst Ehlers [1835-1925], Göttingen, by 1902; (sale Leipzig, C.G. Boerner, 1935, no. 84, pl. 6); Neff Collection, Stuttgart; C.G. Boerner, Dusseldorf; purchased 1992 by NGA.
Exhibition History
- 1906
- Ausstellung deutscher Kunst aus der Zeit von 1775-1875: Zeichnungen, Aquarelle Pastelle, Ölstudien Miniaturen und Möbel, Königliche Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 1906, no. 2438.
- 1992
- Dürer to Diebenkorn: Recent Acquisitions of Art of Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1992, no. 54.
- 2000
- Art for the Nation: Collecting for a New Century, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000-2001, 208, as Moonrise on an Empty Shore (Mondaufgang am Strand von Ruschwitz auf Rügen).
- 2010
- German Master Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1580-1900, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2010-2011, no cat.
Bibliography
- 1960
- Börsch-Supan, Helmut. Die Bildgestaltung bei Caspar David Friedrich, Munich, 1960 (dissertation, Berlin 1958), p. 79, note 1.
- 1970
- Werner Sumowski, Caspar David Friedrich-Studien, Wiesbaden, 1970, pp.153, 155.
- 1973
- Helmut Börsch-Supan and Karl Wilhelm Jähnig, Caspar David Friedrich, Gemälde, Druckgraphik und bildmässige Zeichnungen, Munich, 1973, p. 472, no. 487 (mentioned under nos. 483, 484, 485, 486).
- 1992
- Robison, Andrew. "Moonrise on an Empty Shore." National Gallery of Art Circle Bulletin 9 (1992): 30-31.
- 2001
- Parshall, Linda and Peter. "A Twice-Told Tale: Brentano & Schinkel on Paper." Art on Paper 5, no. 6 (July-August 2001): 42-43, fig. 6 (color).
- 2001
- Robison, Andrew, "Later American Collectors of Later German Drawings," Master Drawings 39, no. 2, Summer 2001, 183, 184-185, fig. 14.
- 2004
- Festgabe für Marianne Küffner zum 3. Oktober 2004. Dusseldorf, 2004: no. 6, repro. (as "Rügenküste bei Monaufgang").
- 2010
- Kunz , Armin. “German Drawings, Washington.” Review of German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection 1580-1900.” In The Burlington Magazine 152, no. 1,290 (October 2010): 702.
- 2010
- Robison, Andrew. "German Drawings for the National Gallery of Art: The Wolfgang Ratjen Collection." National Gallery of Art Bulletin 42 (Spring 2010): 4, 5, 11, color fig. 4.
- 2011
- Grummt, Christina. Caspar David Friedrich: Die Zeichnungen, Das gesamte Werk. 2 vols. Munich, 2011: 2: 901, no. 995, color repro.
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