Caspar David Friedrich · 1808-1810
The Monk by the Sea
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A tiny, solitary figure stands on a pale dune before a dark sea and a vast, hazy sky: Friedrich's near-abstract seascape of sand, water and cloud. Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin.
Up to 17.1 × 11 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
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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 Monk by the Sea
The Monk by the Sea was painted between 1808 and 1810 in Dresden and was first shown together with The Abbey in the Oakwood in the Berlin Academy exhibition of 1810. On Friedrich's request it was hung above The Abbey in the Oakwood. After the exhibition both pictures were bought by King Frederick William III, and today they hang side by side in the Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin.
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".
All Caspar David Friedrich prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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