Caspar David Friedrich

romanticism

Caspar David Friedrich Paintings 1774 - 1840 German Painter, Romanticism

On board a Sailing Ship, 1818-1820

Oil on canvas, Height: 71 cm (27.9 in); Width: 56 cm (22 in)

Hermitage, St Petersburg

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OIL PAINTING: On board a Sailing Ship, 1818-1820
This painting- On board a Sailing Ship, with its bold composition, was probably purchased by the future Tsar Nicholas I in 1820, when he visited Friedrich in Dresden.
As if we ourselves were on board, our eyes are directed towards the prow of the boat, where a couple are sitting. They are holding hands and gazing at the distant city ahead, its church spires and buildings emerging hazily from the mist. The woman is Caroline, the artist's wife, and the man is probably intended to be Friedrich. Friedrich is possibly referring here to the motif of the ship of life, to the notion of life as a journey from this world to the next, as familiar from Christian pictorial and literary tradition. On board a Sailing Ship is dominated, however, by the emotional span between the narrowness of the boat, the way in which it seems to be gliding soundlessly forwards, strangely without waves, and the longed-for horizon. Dominant, too, is th