Seaside by Moonlight
Seaside by Moonlight is an 1818 oil on canvas painting by Caspar David Friedrich. It is now in the Louvre Museum (RF 2000-3), to which it was given by the Société des Amis du Louvre in 2000, and now hangs in Room E on the second floor of the Aile Richelieu. It was the second Friedrich work acquired by the museum after The Tree of Crows in 1975.[1]
The work was produced in late August 1818 after the artist returned to Dresden, where he was living, from his honeymoon on the German Baltic coast, where he had grown up. It drew on landscape studies he had made there, particularly in Greifswald and Rügen. During that stay he also produced the drawing Study of Ships near Vierow on 31 July, which fed directly into the painting.[2]
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- Cairn in Snow (1807)
- Cross in the Mountains (1808)
- The Monk by the Sea (1808–1810)
- The Abbey in the Oakwood (1809–10)
- Mountain Landscape with Rainbow (1809–10)
- Morning on the Riesengebirge (1810–11)
- The Tombs of the Old Heroes (1812)
- Neubrandenburg (c. 1816)
- Two Men by the Sea (1817)
- The Gazebo (1818)
- Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (1818)
- Chalk Cliffs on Rügen (1818)
- Seaside by Moonlight (1818)
- The Port of Greifswald (1818–1820)
- Two Men Contemplating the Moon; Man and Woman Contemplating the Moon (1820s)
- Evening (1821)
- River Bank in Fog (1821)
- The Lonely Tree (1822)
- Moonrise by the Sea (1822)
- The Tree of Crows (1822)
- Woman at a Window (1822)
- Hutten's Grave (1823)
- The Sea of Ice (1823–24)
- The Watzmann (1824–25)
- Cabin in the Snow (1827)
- Ships in Harbour, Evening (1828)
- The Temple of Juno in Agrigento (1828–1830)
- The Great Enclosure (1831)
- Ruins of Eldena Abbey in the Riesengebirge (1830–1834)
- Neubrandenburg Burning (1830–1835)
- Sunset (1830–1835)
- The Stages of Life (1835)
- The Woman with the Spider's Web (1803)
- Woman with a Raven at an Abyss (c. 1803)
- Boy Sleeping on a Grave (c. 1803)
- Caspar David Friedrich in his Studio (1811/1819 paintings)
- Boundaries of Time: Caspar David Friedrich (1986 film)
- Zauber der Stille (2023 biography)