A Walk at Dusk  1835

by Caspar David Friedrich

His head bowed, a man walks alone in the silvery, cold moonlit night while contemplating a megalithic tomb and its implicit message of death. It is winter, and all around him nature is dying. Leafless trees loom behind like specters, but a grove of verdant oaks rises through the mist in the background with the promise of life. The waxing moon, high in the sky, also acts as...
Size: 
33.3 x 43.7 cm
Medium: 
Oil on canvas
Credit: 
Courtesy of The Getty