Cairn in Snow
1807 · Oil on canvas · Galerie Neue Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
The whole painting, uncropped, on a printed cream mat with its title beneath.
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About this work
- Artist
- Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840)
- Year
- 1807
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 61 × 80 cm
- Collection
- Galerie Neue Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
- Movement
- Romanticism
Three old oaks stand on a snowy hilltop around a prehistoric stone tomb, a large capstone resting on smaller stones. Two of the trees have lost their crowns, the third leans sideways, and their bare branches spread across a pale sky that warms to yellow behind them. A few black birds fly among the branches, and a grey haze hides the land below. Caspar David Friedrich painted it in about 1807, and it is one of his earliest oil paintings. The tomb is thought to be based on a Neolithic grave at Gützkow in Pomerania, and the trees on sketches made at Neubrandenburg. The painter Johan Christian Dahl, Friedrich's friend, bought it at auction in Leipzig in 1845. The Galerie Neue Meister in Dresden acquired it from the estate of Dahl's son in 1905.
This print reproduces the whole work, uncropped, from a high-resolution scan of the original. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
Bare brown trees and a snow-capped stone tomb on white snow, under a sky that shades from grey-blue to pale gold. Suited to a study or dining room with Friedrich's Winter Landscape; a dark wood frame matches the bare trunks.
Size, framing & materials
- Style
- Romanticism painting
- Era
- 19th century (1807)
- Orientation
- Landscape
- Mood
- dramatic, moody
- Rooms
- dining room, study or library, living room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. Prints at 16×12, 24×18 in — 16×12 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 24×18 above a console or sideboard. See it to scale on your wall →
Framing. The gallery ground is part of the print, so frame it without a mat — black suits the deep tones of this period; dark wood warms it.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
- Restored in-house from the original painting, cleaned and colour-trued at museum resolution
- Museum-quality archival paper: heavyweight, acid-free, resists yellowing
- Framed option: wood frame in black or dark wood, 12 mm wide and 22 mm deep, with a plexiglass front and no mat; the print is mounted inside and the frame's outside measures the listed size
- Made to order; colours may vary slightly from screen
