1828 (ca.), Caspar David Friedrich, Landscape with Mountain Lake, Morning -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: The mountains seem to float between the mist rising off the water and the thin bands of clouds in the sky. In the sunlit valley, a visitor in a top hat and black coat is out for a stroll. This landscape may have been inspired by the Königssee, a lake in the Alps at the foot of the Watzmann, which Friedrich depicted in 1824-25. He never traveled to the region, but the Königssee was visited by so many artists that a portion of the waterfront was dubbed the Painter's Corner. His student August Heinrich sketched the lake, and the church on its shore, on the back of the small study of the Watzmann displayed nearby.
1828 (ca.), Caspar David Friedrich, Landscape with Mountain Lake, Morning -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: The mountains seem to float between the mist rising off the water and the thin bands of clouds in the sky. In the sunlit valley, a visitor in a top hat and black coat is out for a stroll. This landscape may have been inspired by the Königssee, a lake in the Alps at the foot of the Watzmann, which Friedrich depicted in 1824-25. He never traveled to the region, but the Königssee was visited by so many artists that a portion of the waterfront was dubbed the Painter's Corner. His student August Heinrich sketched the lake, and the church on its shore, on the back of the small study of the Watzmann displayed nearby.