Keywords: Caspar David Friedrich - Zwei Männer in Betrachtung des Mondes (Metropolitan Museum of Art).jpg Artwork Q17281208 Creator Caspar David Friedrich ca 1825 1830 oil canvas cm 34 9 43 8 institution Metropolitan Museum of Art Gallery 807 Christie's online 1543692 6168 10 London 7 October 1999 object history Dr Otto Friedrich Rosenberg Dresden by 1840 “d 1850; acquired from the artist in exchange for medical attention ; his daughter Theophila Minna Rosenberg Dresden by 1850 “presumably until d 1882 ; by descent through the Rosenberg family Wuppertal-Barmen later Hamburg to Gottfried Spiegler Glinde until 1999; sale Christie's London October 7 1999 no 10 for £771 500 approx 1 277 000 to Artemis ; Artemis Fine Arts New York 1999 “2000; sold to MMA credit line Wrightsman Fund 2000 exhibition history Dortmund Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Caspar David Friedrich Winterlandschaften June-July 1990 no 37 This is a variant of a painting of 1819 that shows the same gnarled oak but different figures and a dramatic night sky B-S 261; Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister Dresden inv no 2194 A second variant of about 1825 depicts a man and a woman at dusk Man and Woman Contemplating the Moon B-S XLIII; Gemäldegalerie Berlin accession number 2000 51 110003080 <gallery> File WLA metmuseum Caspar David Friedrich German jpg </gallery> PD-old-100-1923 DEFAULTSORT Caspar David Friedrich Zwei Manner in Betrachtung des Mondes Metropolitan Museum of Art 1820s paintings by Caspar David Friedrich Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York - Gallery 807 German paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art 1820s paintings |