Figures Contemplating the Moon
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.Artwork Details
- Title: Figures Contemplating the Moon
- Artist: Caspar David Friedrich (German, Greifswald 1774–1840 Dresden)
- Date: ca. 1799
- Medium: Black ink, transparent and opaque watercolor, and touches of pink and yellow chalk over pencil on wove paper, mounted (framing lines in black ink)
- Dimensions: 3 1/2 × 5 in. (8.9 × 12.7 cm)
Framed: 31 1/8 in. × 24 3/16 in. × 1 9/16 in. (79 × 61.5 × 4 cm) - Classification: Drawings
- Credit Line: Private collection, New York; courtesy W. M. Brady and Co., New York
- Curatorial Department: European Paintings