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Caspar David Friedrich · c. 1822

The Tree of Crows

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A gnarled, leafless oak spreads across an evening sky of pale gold and pink, crows perched in its branches and a flock descending towards it, above a grassy mound with hacked trunks and a strip of sea at the horizon. Musée du Louvre, Paris.

Up to 14.9 × 12 in · landscape

Size

Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.

Format & finish

Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.

Scale next to a 5'10" person

14.9″12″

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Materials & quality

›Canvas & inks

Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.

›Floater frame

Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.

›Posters

Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.

›Faithful to the source

Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.

The story of The Tree of Crows

Acquired by the Louvre in 1975, it was the museum's first work by Friedrich. An inscription on the back of the canvas calls the hill in the centre a Huenengrab, a prehistoric burial mound.

Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Caspar David Friedrich

Caspar David Friedrich was a German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation, whose often symbolic, and anti-classical work, conveys a subjective, emotional response to the natural world. Friedrich's paintings often set contemplative human figures silhouetted against night skies, morning mists, barren trees or Gothic ruins. Art historian Christopher John Murray described their presence, in diminished perspective, amid expansive landscapes, as reducing the figures to a scale that directs "the viewer's gaze towards their metaphysical dimension".

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Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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