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Caspar David Friedrich: Two men contemplating the Moon  wikidata:Q17281208 reasonator:Q17281208
Artist
Caspar David Friedrich  (1774–1840)  wikidata:Q104884 q:en:Caspar David Friedrich
 
Caspar David Friedrich
Alternative names
German: Caspar David Friedrich
Description German painter, drawer and etcher
Date of birth/death 5 September 1774 Edit this at Wikidata 7 May 1840 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Greifswald Dresden
Work period Romanticism
Work location
Berlin, Greifswald, Rügen, Dresden (1798)
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artist QS:P170,Q104884
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
Two Men Contemplating the Moon Edit this at Wikidata
label QS:Lfr,"Deux hommes contemplant la lune"
label QS:Lde,"Zwei Männer in Betrachtung des Mondes"
label QS:Len,"Two men contemplating the Moon"
label QS:Lru,"Двое мужчин созерцая Луну"
Series title Two men contemplating the Moon Edit this at Wikidata
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre genre art Edit this at Wikidata
Date between circa 1825 and circa 1830
date QS:P571,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1825-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1830-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 34.9 cm (13.7 in); width: 43.8 cm (17.2 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,34.9U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,43.8U174728
institution QS:P195,Q160236
Current location
Gallery 807
Accession number
2000.51
Place of creation Germany Edit this at Wikidata
Object history Dr. Otto Friedrich Rosenberg, Dresden (by 1840–d. 1850; acquired from the artist in exchange for medical attention); his daughter, Theophila Minna Rosenberg, Dresden (by 1850–presumably until d. 1882); by descent through the Rosenberg family, Wuppertal-Barmen, later Hamburg, to Gottfried Spiegler, Glinde (until 1999; sale, Christie's, London, October 7, 1999, no. 10, for £771,500 [approx. $1,277,000] to Artemis); [Artemis Fine Arts, New York, 1999–2000; sold to MMA]
Exhibition history Dortmund, Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Caspar David Friedrich. Winterlandschaften, June-July 1990, no. 37.
Credit line Wrightsman Fund, 2000
Notes This is a variant of a painting of 1819 that shows the same gnarled oak but different figures and a dramatic night sky (B-S 261; Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister, Dresden, inv. no. 2194). A second variant of about 1825 depicts a man and a woman at dusk, "Man and Woman Contemplating the Moon" (B-S XLIII; Gemäldegalerie, Berlin).
References Christie's, LotFinder: entry 1543692 (sale 6168, lot 10, London, 7 October 1999)
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Source/Photographer Metropolitan Museum of Art, online collection (The Met object ID 438417)
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