File:Caspar David Friedrich - Mondaufgang über dem Meer.jpg

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Summary

Caspar David Friedrich: Moonrise over the Sea

Artist



Alternative names	German: Caspar David Friedrich
Description	German painter, drawer and etcher
Date of birth/death	5 September 1774	7 May 1840
Location of birth/death	Greifswald	Dresden
Work period	Romanticism
Work location	Berlin, Greifswald, Rügen, Dresden (1798)
Authority file	: Q104884 VIAF: 12145857793223021180 ISNI: 0000000108551681 ULAN: 500116242 LCCN: n79059754 NLA: 35104582 WorldCat

Title

Moonrise over the Sea

Object type

painting

Genre

landscape art

Date

circa 1821

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 135 cm (53.1 in); width: 170 cm (66.9 in)

Collection

Hermitage Museum

	Native name	Государственный Эрмитаж
	Location	Saint Petersburg
	Coordinates	59° 56′ 26″ N, 30° 18′ 49″ E
	Established	1764
	Website	hermitagemuseum.org
	Authority file	: Q132783 VIAF: 128956287 ISNI: 000000041800742X LCCN: n79100241 NLA: 35139924 OSM: 8092294 WorldCat

Current location

The General Staff Building, room 352

Accession number

ГЭ-6396

Place of creation

Bourg-en-Bresse

Object history

Entered the Hermitage before 1928; transferred from the Ropsha Palace, to which it came in 1861; was kept in the Drawing Room of Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolaevich

References

The Hermitage, St. Petersburg

Source/Photographer

1. The Yorck Project (2002) 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei (DVD-ROM), distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH. ISBN: 3936122202.

2. album.foto.ru
3. arthermitage.org
4. Erich Lessing / Art Resource, NY via artsy.net

Licensing

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current	01:31, 13 March 2017	4,327 × 3,465 (4.91 MB)	Trzęsacz	https://www.artsy.net/artwork/caspar-david-friedrich-moonrise-on-the-seashore
	10:33, 8 December 2008	1,476 × 1,160 (158 KB)	Dmitry Rozhkov	high quality
	04:14, 21 November 2008	754 × 600 (202 KB)	Lithoderm	{{Information \|Description= \|Source= \|Date= \|Author= \|Permission= \|other_versions= }}
	16:33, 17 February 2008	2,536 × 2,018 (341 KB)	Augiasstallputzer~commonswiki	Adjusting brightness
	11:16, 19 May 2005	2,536 × 2,018 (216 KB)	File Upload Bot (Eloquence)	{{Painting\| \|Title=<br /> ''de:'' Mondaufgang am Meer \|Technique=<br /> ''de:'' Öl auf Leinwand \|Dimensions=<br /> ''de:'' 135 × 170 cm \|Location=<br /> ''de:'' St. Petersburg \|Country=<br /> ''de:'' Deutschland \|Gallery=<br /> ''de:''