1797, Caspar David Friedrich, Country House in a Broadleaf Forest -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: One of Friedrich's earliest landscapes, this work dates from the artist's time in Copenhagen, when he was enrolled at the Royal Academy of Denmark. Although his training there focused on the representation of the human body, he pursued landscape drawing on his own, depicting the Danish countryside in luminous watercolors. In this example, an open gate beckons us into the landscape, but the path and house beyond it are obscured. Like the figures in the foreground, we find ourselves halted — invited to pause before the rustic structure and take in the light-dappled foliage.
1797, Caspar David Friedrich, Country House in a Broadleaf Forest -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: One of Friedrich's earliest landscapes, this work dates from the artist's time in Copenhagen, when he was enrolled at the Royal Academy of Denmark. Although his training there focused on the representation of the human body, he pursued landscape drawing on his own, depicting the Danish countryside in luminous watercolors. In this example, an open gate beckons us into the landscape, but the path and house beyond it are obscured. Like the figures in the foreground, we find ourselves halted — invited to pause before the rustic structure and take in the light-dappled foliage.