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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Statue of the Madonna in the Mountains by Caspar David Friedrich
    Caspar David Friedrich. Statue of the Madonna in the Mountains, 1804. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00002923

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    Statue of the Madonna in the Mountains

    by Caspar David Friedrich

    Exhibition history

    Bremen, Germany, Kunsthalle Bremen, "Ein Halbjahrtausend deutscher Zeichnung," June 9-August 30, 1936, cat. 78. Wiesbaden, Germany, Städtisches Museum Wiesbaden, "Zeichenkunst in der deutschen Romantik," May-July 1937, cat. 81; also traveled to the Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden. Hamburg, Germany, Hamburg Kunsthalle, "Caspar David Friedrich 1774-1840," September 14-November 3, 1974, cat. 56, cat by Werner Hofmann, et al.. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 120-21, cat. 53 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi; also traveled to the St. Louis Museum of Art, March 10-May 17, 1986. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, "Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature", February 3 - May 11, 2025, p. 80, 130, 134-135 (ill.), cat. 16, cat. by Alison Hokanson, Joanna Sheers Seidenstein, et. al.

    Publications

    Helmut Bösch-Supan and Karl Wilhelm Jähnig, Caspar David Friedrich: Genälde, Druckgraphik und bildmäßige Zeichnungen (Munich, 1973), pp. 280-81, no. 119 (ill.). Harold Joachim, "A Drawing by Caspar David Friedrich," Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 70:5 (September-October 1976), pp. 18-19 (ill.). James N. Wood and Sally Ruth May, The Art Institute of Chicago: The Essential Guide (Chicago, 1993), p. 212 (ill.). Treasures from The Art Institute of Chicago, selected by James N. Wood, with commentaries by Debra N. Mancoff (Chicago, 2000), p. 184 (ill.). Marsha Morton, “German Romanticism: The Search for ‘A Quiet Place,’“ The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 28:1 (2002), pp. 11-12 and 16, fig. 5 (ill.). The Essential Guide (Chicago, 2009), p. 300 (ill.). Christina Grummt, Caspar David Friedrich, The Complete Drawings (Munich, 2011), p. 398, fig 414 (ill).

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Caspar David Friedrich / German, 1774-1840
    Date
    1804
    Medium
    Brush and black ink and gray wash, with graphite, on cream wove paper
    Dimensions
    24.4 × 38.2 cm (9 5/8 × 15 1/16 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    ink or chalk wash
    Style
    romantic
    Place
    Germany
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Margaret Day Blake Collection
    Accession no.
    1976.22

    Provenance

    Carl August Wuppesahl (1873-1954), Bremen, by 1936 [Bremen 1936 and Börsch-Supan and Jähnig 1973]. Sold by Auctionhouse Dörling, Hamburg, to Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zürich, 1975 [a letter from Walter Feilchenfeldt of January 5, 2004 in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute, 1976.

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