1985.51: Landscape Studies

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1985.51

People

Caspar David Friedrich, German (Greifswald 1774 - 1840 Dresden)

Title

Landscape Studies

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

June 24 1811

Culture

German

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/295211

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

35.8 x 25.9 cm (14 1/8 x 10 3/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[Galerie Kühl, Dresden, 1928]. [C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, 19 June 1937, no. 22]. [Karl & Faber, Munich, 28 November 1979, no. 34] to; Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Melvin R. Seiden Fund, Louise Haskell Daly Fund and Paul J. Sachs Memorial Fund

Accession Year

1985

Object Number

1985.51

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Caspar David Friedrich der Graphiker. Handzeichnungen und Radierungen., auct. cat. (Dresden, Germany, 1928), no. 85, repr.
• Auktion 195: Neuere deutsche Handzeichnungen, alte, meist niederlandische Handzeichnungen, deutsche Graphik des 19. Jahrhunderts., auct. cat. (Leipzig, 1937), no. 22, repr. Taf. X
• Sigrid Hinz, Caspar David Friedrich in Briefen und Bekenntnissen (Munich, 1968 and 1974), no. 573
• Marianne Bernhard, Caspar David Friedrich. Das gesamte graphische Werk (Munich, 1974), repr. S. 548
• Auktion 150: Aquarelle und Zeichnungen der Romantik, auct. cat. (Munich, 1979), no. 34, repr.
• Tina Grütter, Melancholie und Abgrund. Die Bedeutung des Gesteins bei Caspar David Friedrich. Ein Beitrag zum Symboldenken der Frühromantik (Berlin, 1986), S. 112
• Herrmann Zschoche, "Der Spezialfreund. Caspar David Friedrich und der Bildhauer Christian Gottlieb Kühn", Sächsische Heimatblätter (1988), 34, H. 2, S. 55-61, S. 56
• Joseph Koerner, Caspar David Friedrich and the Subject of Landscape, Reaktion Books (London, 1990), p. 189, fig. 102
• Joseph Koerner, Caspar David Friedrich. Landschaft und Subjekt. Epochen der Deutschen Kunst. Vol. III: Romantik (Munich, 1998), S. 251, repr. S. 212, Abb. 129
• William W. Robinson, Classicism-Romanticism-Realism: German Drawings from Mengs to Menzel in the Harvard University Art Museums, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1998), checklist no. 1
• Herrmann Zschoche, Caspar David Friedrich im Harz (Dresden, 2000), S. 45, 48, repr. Abb. 21
• Werner Busch, Caspar David Friedrich. Asthetik und Religion. (Munich, 2003), S. 82, Anm. 1, Anm. 3, S. 85, Anm. 7
• Christina Grummt, Caspar David Friedrich: die Zeichnungen, das gesamte Werk, Verlag C.H. Beck (Munich, Germany, 2011), vol. II, cat. no. 641 pp. 621-622, repr.

Exhibition History

• Caspar David Friedrich der Graphiker. Handzeichnungen und Radierungen., Kunstausstellung Heinrich Kühl, 12/01/1928 - 12/31/1928
• 19th-Century German Drawings and Watercolors, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 07/01/1981 - 08/31/1981
• From Mengs to Menzel: 19th-Century German Drawings, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 10/28/1981 - 12/22/1981
• 19th-Century Drawings from the Permanent Collection, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 09/01/1983 - 10/09/1983
• The Age of Romanticism, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 03/15/1986 - 05/18/1986
• Classicism-Romanticism-Realism: German Drawings from Mengs to Menzel in the Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/04/1998 - 06/28/1998
• Looking Back: The Western Tradition in Retrospect, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/20/2018 - 05/06/2018

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