"Monk by the sea", Caspar David Friedrich

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Published: June 25, 2007, 10:06 am

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Monk by the Sea, (1809) Oil on canvas, 110 x 172 cm

Caspar David Friederich (b. 1774, Greifswald, d. 1840, Dresden)

Nationalgalerie, Berlin

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