| Mountain Landscape with Rainbow | |
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| German: Gebirgslandschaft mit Regenbogen | |
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| Artist | Caspar David Friedrich |
| Year | 1809–10 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 70 cm × 102 cm (27.5 in × 40.1 in) |
| Location | Museum Folkwang, Essen |
Mountain Landscape with Rainbow (German: Gebirgslandschaft mit Regenbogen), is an oil painting by the German Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich, from 1809-1810. Depicting a traveler who has stopped to view a mountainous landscape with a rainbow shining above, the painting was inspired by Friedrich's travels through Germany and along the shores of the Baltic Sea in 1809. Influenced by the Romantic values of subjective experience, Friedrich portrays a figure enraptured by the sublimity of nature.[1]
In 1810, the painting was purchased together with other pictures by Duke Carl August of Saxe-Weimar.[2] Today, Mountain Landscape with Rainbow is held in the Folkwang Museum in Essen, Germany.[3]
- ^ Russell, Peter (2016). Delphi Complete Paintings of Caspar David Friedrich (Illustrated). Delphi Classics. ISBN 9781786565006.
- ^ Grave, Johannes (2017). Caspar David Friedrich (2nd ed.). London/New York: Prestel. p. 120. ISBN 978-3-7913-8357-6.
- ^ "Friedrich, Caspar David", Benezit Dictionary of Artists, Oxford University Press, 2011-10-31, doi:10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00068386, retrieved 2022-11-17