1824, Caspar David Friedrich, The North Sea in Moonlight -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: In 1824 Friedrich exhibited this work in Prague, in what is today Czechia (the Czech Republic). The catalogue identified the setting as the North Sea, which extends from Germany's northwestern coast past the southern tip of Norway. Friedrich never visited the North Sea. Instead, he based his depiction on works by the Norwegian-born painter Johan Christian Dahl and Dahl's source material, drawings of Norway's coast by the Dresden geologist Carl Friedrich Naumann. Friedrich's flair for subtly stimulating the imagination is evident in the path of light that unfurls from the boat's mast toward the rocks and out to the open sea.
1824, Caspar David Friedrich, The North Sea in Moonlight -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: In 1824 Friedrich exhibited this work in Prague, in what is today Czechia (the Czech Republic). The catalogue identified the setting as the North Sea, which extends from Germany's northwestern coast past the southern tip of Norway. Friedrich never visited the North Sea. Instead, he based his depiction on works by the Norwegian-born painter Johan Christian Dahl and Dahl's source material, drawings of Norway's coast by the Dresden geologist Carl Friedrich Naumann. Friedrich's flair for subtly stimulating the imagination is evident in the path of light that unfurls from the boat's mast toward the rocks and out to the open sea.