Caspar David Friedrich / Mountain Landscape with Rainbow

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Mountain Landscape with Rainbow

1809 · Oil on canvas

ArtistCCaspar David Friedrich

MuseumMMuseum Folkwang

MovementRRomanticism

LocationEssen, Germany

Genreself-portrait

Dimensions69 × 102 cm

SourceWikidata Q507120

Why it matters

A traveller stops to view a mountain landscape with a rainbow shining above, enraptured by the sublimity of nature.

Did you know?

It was painted in 1809–1810.
It was inspired by Friedrich's travels in 1809.
Duke Carl August of Saxe-Weimar bought it in 1810.

Based on the Wikipedia article Mountain Landscape with Rainbow (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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