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Caspar David Friedrich

New Moon or Solar Eclipse above the Riesengebirge Mountains, 1810 or 1828/1835

Not on View

Medium

pen and gray ink with watercolor over graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

overall: 26.2 x 36.5 cm (10 5/16 x 14 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Purchased as the Gift of Helen Porter and James T. Dyke and Dian Woodner

Catalogue Raisonné

Grummt 2011, no. 626

Accession Number

2007.111.10

Artists / Makers

Caspar David Friedrich (artist) German, 1774 - 1840

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Provenance

Possibly a gift of the artist to an ancester of Adolf Gruis, Berlin and inherited by him by 1939. (sale, Gerd Rosen, Frankfurt am Main, 11-13 October 1961, no. 60). Fritz Busche, Dortmund. (Galerie Arnoldi-Livie, Munich) 1987. Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Busche, Fritz
Gruis
Rosen, Gerd
Stiftung Ratjen

Exhibition History

1992: Caspar David Friedrich: Pinturas y dibujos, Prado, Madrid, 1992-1993, no. 96.

2006: Caspar David Friedrich: Die Erfindung der Romantik, Museum Folkwang, Essen; Kunsthalle Hamburg, 2006-2007: 370, reproduced p. 209.

2008: L'Age d'or du romantisme allemand: aquarelles et dessins à l'époque de Goethe. Paris, Musée de la vie romantique, 2008, no. 27.

2010: German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580 - 1900, NGA, 2010: 19, 31, 34, 36, 38, 158-161, no. 53 (entry by Hinrich Sieveking).

Bibliography

1966: Hinz, Sigrid. "Caspar David Friedrich als Zeichner." Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Greifswald, 1966: no. 552.

1970: Sumowski, Werner. Caspar David Friedrich-Studien. Wiesbaden, 1970: 163, n. 1001, 271, pl. 122, ill. 361.

1973: Börsch-Supan, Helmut, and Karl Wilhelm Jähning. Caspar David Friedrich, Gemälde, Druckgraphik und bildmässige Zeichnungen. Munich, 1973: no. 491.

1974: Bernhard, Marianne. Caspar David Friedrich. Das gesamte graphische Werk. Munich, 1974: 533.

2001: Lachenmann, David. "Wolfgang Ratjen as Collector." Master Drawings 39 (2001): 110 and fig. 9.

2008: Börsch-Supan, Helmut. Caspar David Friedrich, Gefühl als Gesetz. Munich and Berlin, 2008: 212, n. 58.

2008: Schultz, Anna. "Nineteenth-century German Drawings in Berlin and Paris." Master Drawings 46, no. 2 (Summer 2008): 258, 259, fig. 4 (color).

2010: Kunz , Armin. “German Drawings, Washington.” Review of German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection 1580-1900.” In Burlington 152, no. 1,291 (October 2010): 701, 702, color fig. 53.

2010: Robison, Andrew. "German Drawings for the National Gallery of Art: The Wolfgang Ratjen Collection." National Gallery of Art Bulletin 42 (Spring 2010): 11, color cover.

2011: Grummt, Christina. Caspar David Friedrich: Die Zeichnungen, Das gesamte Werk. 2 vols. Munich, 2011: 2:604-605, no. 626, color repro.

2024: Olson, Roberta J..M. "Eclipsed? The NIneteenth-Century Quest to Capture Solar Eclipses in Art, Science, and Technology" in Eclipse and Revelation: Total Solar Eclipses in Science, History, Literature, and Art, ed. Henrike Lange and Tom McLeish. Oxford, 2024: 186-187.