Eastern Coast of Rügen with Shepherd
Purchase, several members of The Chairman's Council Gifts and Fletcher Fund, and Promised Gift of Leon D. and Debra R. Black, 2002
Catalogue
- Year
- 1805
- Dimensions
- 24 1/4 x 39 inches (61.6 x 99 cm)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Artist
- Caspar David Friedrich
Artist
Painting
Caspar David Friedrich was a German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation, whose often symbolic, and anti-classical work, conveys a subjective, emotional response to the natural world. Friedrich's paintings often set contemplative human figures silhouetted against night skies, morning mists, barren trees or Gothic ruins. Art historian Christopher John Murray described their presence, in diminished perspective, amid expansive landscapes, as reducing the figures to a scale that directs "the viewer's gaze towards their metaphysical dimension".
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- Caspar David Friedrich
- Year
- 1805
- Dimensions
- 24 1/4 x 39 inches (61.6 x 99 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1805-004412
Source
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
- Reference
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- verified