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Mountains near Berchtesgaden, Bavaria (Germany)

Cooper Hewitt

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    Object Details

    Artist

    Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

    Catalogue Status

    Research in Progress

    Description

    Landscape sketch showing a view of mountains in the Bavarian alps in Germany. A rolling, wooded hill stretches across the foreground in front of two tall and rugged mountains in the middle distance at left and right. The converging slopes of these mountains forms a "V" that frames a rocky, snow-capped peak in the distance--possibly Untersberg--which is bathed in the rosy orange light of the rising or setting sun. Above, cream colored clouds stretch across an otherwise blue sky.

    Credit Line

    Gift of Louis P. Church

    Date

    July 1868

    Accession Number

    1917-4-511

    Restrictions & Rights

    CC0

    Type

    landscapes

    Object Name

    drawing

    Type

    drawing

    Medium

    Oil and graphite on tan paperboard

    Dimensions

    18.5 × 30 cm (7 5/16 × 11 13/16 in.)

    made in

    Berchtesgaden, Germany

    place depicted

    Berchtesgaden, Germany

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    Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department

    Data Source

    Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

    Metadata Usage

    CC0

    Link to Original Record

    http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4dc3e1411-b6dc-42ba-9aac-59fb2900a00c

    Record ID

    chndm_1917-4-511

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