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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-Swedish 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 Edit this at Wikidata Dresden Edit this at Wikidata
Work period Romanticism
Work location
Berlin, Greifswald, Rügen, Dresden (1798)
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q104884
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
Two Men Contemplating the Moon Edit this at Wikidata
title QS:P1476,en:"Two Men Contemplating the Moon Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Len,"Two Men Contemplating the Moon Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Lit,"Due uomini davanti alla luna"
label QS:Lfr,"Deux Hommes contemplant la lune"
label QS:Lru,"Двое мужчин созерцая Луну"
label QS:Lde,"Zwei Männer in Betrachtung des Mondes"
label QS:Lvi,"Hai người ngắm trăng"
label QS:Lhy,"Երկու տղամարդ ուսումնասիրում են լուսինը"
label QS:Lzh,"两人赏月"
label QS:Lda,"To mænd, der betragter Månen"
label QS:Lja,"月を眺める2人の男"
label QS:Les,"Dos hombres contemplan la luna"
label QS:Lko,"달을 바라보는 두 남자"
label QS:Lpt,"Dois homens contemplam a lua"
label QS:Lar,"رجلان يتأمّلان القمر"
label QS:Lca,"Dos homes contemplant la lluna"
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 circa from 1825 until 1830
date QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1825-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1830-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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Medium oil on canvas Edit this at Wikidata
Dimensions height: 34.9 cm (13.7 in) Edit this at Wikidata; width: 43.8 cm (17.2 in) Edit this at Wikidata
dimensions QS:P2048,+34.9U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,+43.8U174728
institution QS:P195,Q160236
Current location
Gallery 807
Accession number
2000.51 (Metropolitan Museum of Art) Edit this at Wikidata
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]
Credit line Wrightsman Fund, 2000
Notes These two figures are seen from behind so that the viewer may participate in their communion with nature. They have been identified as Friedrich, at right, and his friend and disciple August Heinrich (1794–1822). Fascination with the moon ran high among the German Romantics, who regarded the motif as an object of pious contemplation.
References
Authority file
Source/Photographer Metropolitan Museum of Art, online collection (The Met object ID 438417)
Other versions This is the third version of one of Friedrich’s most famous compositions, of which the first was painted during Heinrich’s lifetime (1819; Gemäldegalerie, Dresden) and the second soon after his death (ca. 1824; Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin). 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).

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Two Men Contemplating the Moon, c. 1825–30. 34.9 x 43.8 cm. Metropolitan Museum of Art

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