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The evening star by Caspar David Friedrich
Caspar David Friedrich · 1830

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
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