The Monastery in the Forest
Catalogue
- Year
- 1823
- Medium
- etching on chine collé
- Dimensions
- plate: 19.5 × 24.9 cm (7 11/16 × 9 13/16 in.) sheet: 29.9 × 41.9 cm (11 3/4 × 16 1/2 in.)
- Collection
- National Gallery of Art
- Artist
- Carl Blechen
Artist
Painting
Carl Eduard Ferdinand Blechen was a German landscape painter and a professor at the Academy of Arts, Berlin. His distinctive style was characteristic of the Romantic ideals of natural beauty.
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A Ruined Church in the Forest
1829 · brush and brown ink and watercolor over graphite on light gray wove paper
Church and Graveyard in the Snow by Moonlight
1827 · Lithograph, with gray tone block on cream wove paper
Pilgrim in the Woods
1825 · Lithograph in black and blue on cream wove paper
Ruins of a Castle
1825 · Lithograph with olive-green tint stone, heightened with white gouache, on ivory wove paper
David and Bathsheba
1825 · pen and brown ink with brown wash over graphite on laid paper
Record
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- Carl Blechen
- Year
- 1823
- Medium
- etching on chine collé
- Dimensions
- plate: 19.5 × 24.9 cm (7 11/16 × 9 13/16 in.) sheet: 29.9 × 41.9 cm (11 3/4 × 16 1/2 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1823-286727
Source
- Collection
- National Gallery of Art
- Source
- nga
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified