1808, Caspar David Friedrich, Morning Mist in the Mountains -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: The mountain seems to dissolve among tendrils of vapor, which gradually clear around the summit. Atop the peak a tiny cross is barely visible against the blue sky, suggesting that divinity is discernible only to those who are prepared to seek it out. Friedrich gravitated toward motifs of cloud and fog because he thought that they magnified the mystery and grandeur of the landscape. The delicate layers of mist in this painting reveal his enthusiasm for the properties of oil paint, a medium he had only recently mastered. This picture was acquired by the princely family of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, important supporters of Romanticism.
1808, Caspar David Friedrich, Morning Mist in the Mountains -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: The mountain seems to dissolve among tendrils of vapor, which gradually clear around the summit. Atop the peak a tiny cross is barely visible against the blue sky, suggesting that divinity is discernible only to those who are prepared to seek it out. Friedrich gravitated toward motifs of cloud and fog because he thought that they magnified the mystery and grandeur of the landscape. The delicate layers of mist in this painting reveal his enthusiasm for the properties of oil paint, a medium he had only recently mastered. This picture was acquired by the princely family of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, important supporters of Romanticism.