New Moon or Solar Eclipse above the Riesengebirge Mountains

Provenance

Possibly a gift of the artist to an ancester of Adolf Gruis, Berlin and inherited by him by 1939. (sale, Gerd Rosen, Frankfurt am Main, 11-13 October 1961, no. 60). Fritz Busche, Dortmund. (Galerie Arnoldi-Livie, Munich) 1987. Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

New Moon or Solar Eclipse above the Riesengebirge Mountains

Friedrich, Caspar David

1810 or 1828/1835

Accession Number

2007.111.10

Medium

pen and gray ink with watercolor over graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

overall: 26.2 x 36.5 cm (10 5/16 x 14 3/8 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Purchased as the Gift of Helen Porter and James T. Dyke and Dian Woodner