Shop art print and framed art Sea in the Moonlight by Caspar David Friedrich

Seaside by Moonlight (in German: Küstenlandschaft bei Mondschein) is a painting by the German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich. Since 2000, following a donation from the Société des Amis du Louvre, it has been conserved and exhibited at the Musée du Louvre, Paris, in the Department of Paintings, Aile Richelieu, 2nd floor, Room E. Seaside in the Moonlight is the second work by Caspar David Friedrich to enter the collections of the Musée du Louvre, following the museum's acquisition of Crows on a Tree in 1975. The picture was painted at the end of August 1818 in Dresden, where Friedrich lived. In 1818, Caspar David Friedrich went on his honeymoon to the Baltic coast, his native region, in particular to the towns of Greifswald and Rügen in northern Germany. He took advantage of this trip to study the landscapes of the region. He thus signed Étude de bateaux près de Vierow (in German: Schiffsstudien bei Vierow), a drawing dated 31 July 1818, depicting ships in the port of Vierow in Brünzow. At the end of August 1818, back in his home town of Dresden, Friedrich took inspiration from this study and painted Seaside in the Moonlight. In a symmetrical, linear composition, the painting depicts a seaside landscape. In the foreground are submerged rocks and fishermen's poles and nets; in the background, sailing ships stand out against the ocean; and in the background, a luminous sky contrasts with the foreground and background, revealing a crescent moon that seems to illuminate [...]

 

This artwork is a painting from the classical period. It belongs to the romanticism style.

 

« Sea in the Moonlight » is kept at Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig, Germany.

 

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