Object Details
- Artist
- Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Landscape study showing a view from an elevated perspective of the Königssee in Bavaria, in present day Germany. In the immediate foreground, the top of a conifer tree is visible at left. Below, the emerald-blue waters of the lake extend into the middle distance and curve around a sheer mountainside at right that meets the water at a nearly perpendicular angle. Its wooded slopes ascend out of the frame at upper right. At left, a steep wooded mountain ridge forms the lake's opposite shoreline, creating a narrow channel at center. Two relatively miniscule row boats are visible on the water's surface at center and lower right. In the background, a rocky, snowy alpine massif backdrops the scene. Above, puffy clouds hang in an otherwise blue sky.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Louis P. Church
- July 1868
- Accession Number
- 1917-4-562-b
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- landscapes
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Oil and graphite on tan paperboard
- Dimensions
- 28.8 × 30.2 cm (11 5/16 × 11 7/8 in.)
- made in
- Bavaria, Germany
- place depicted
- Bavaria, Germany
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1917-4-562-b
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq448f5bf6a-5860-4c00-a5cf-d3e0b5eafc97
