Print of Caspar David Friedrich - Cross in the mountains - 1807
Caspar David Friedrich - Cross in the mountains
Year: 1807 - oil on canvas 110.5x115 cm
Preserved at: Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister, Dresden, Germany.
In the painting Cross in the mountains Caspar David Friedrich painted the top of a mountain with some fir trees. A tall crucifix is set between the rocks. The clouds in the sky are furrowed with reddish streaks due to the low sun on the horizon and lightened by beams of clear light that radiate from below, behind the mountain.