Landscape with Mountain Lake, Morning, Caspar David Friedrich (1835)
Caspar David Friedrich’s Landscape with Mountain Lake, Morning (original German title: "Landschaft mit Gebirgsee, Morgen") is an exemplary image of landscape painting of the Romantic era, expressing mood and meaning through landscape. A lone wanderer in a frock coat, dwarfed by the expanse of the lake and the mountains beyond, pauses for a moment and, leaning on his stick, takes in the vista. His lonely silhouette is counterbalanced by three upright firs, his only other company three cattle on the gently undulating pastureland.
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