
The evening star
The story
A coastal landscape at dusk, reduced to broad bands of land, water, and sky, with a solitary figure at the shore and the planet Venus glimmering above. Painted by Friedrich between 1830 and 1835, late work pared down to its essentials.
- Artist
- Caspar David Friedrich
- Year
- 1830
- Period
- Romantic
- Rights
- Free to view, download & share