Art Institute of Chicago
Church and Graveyard in the Snow by Moonlight
Carl BlechenLinkedCulture matchlcp-9265c0ad7200
- Date
- 1827
- Medium
- Lithograph, with gray tone block on cream wove paper
- Culture
- Germany
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 148401
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
Blechen’s melancholy, monumental lithograph makes eloquent use of a gray tint block to evoke a snowy landscape and a sense of stillness. A lone man, cloak fluttering in the wind, has appeared surreptitiously at night to pay his respects to the dead. Perhaps in this moment he encounters his secret lover’s final resting place. Momentarily overcome with grief, he steadies himself on the plinth beneath a sculpture of the Madonna and Child.
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- Credit line
- Suzanne Lord Folds, Harold Joachim, William McCallin McKee, John H. Wrenn Memorial and Prints and Drawings Purchase endowment funds
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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