New Moon or Solar Eclipse above the Riesengebirge Mountains
Caspar David Friedrich, 1810 or 1828/1835
- Artista
- Caspar David Friedrich
- Data
- 1810 or 1828/1835
- Tipus
- Drawing
- Tècnica
- pen and gray ink with watercolor over graphite on wove paper
- Mides
- 26.2 × 36.5 cm
- Col·lecció
- National Gallery of Art, Washington
- Llicència
- Domini públic, CC0
Descripció de la imatge
A grassy field leading back to hazy mountains under a sun shown in eclipse are painted with muted earthy tones in this horizontal watercolor. The field along the bottom third of the sheet is painted in soft peanut brown, and a line of trees on the far side are misty sage green. Ridges of the mountains are layered like sheets of torn paper under a parchment-white sky. The sun at the top center is mostly covered by a silvery disk.