Famous work · not an exact-location map point
Two men contemplating the Moon
Real-world connection
No single real-world viewpoint
This famous work does not have a single exact real-world viewpoint. The connection below explains its actual relationship to the real world.
- Date
- 1819-01-01
- Real-world link
- Real-world connection
Where the original is now
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
In the collection of Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
On-view status is not live-verified — check the museum before visiting.
Sources
- Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Galerie Neue Meister — collection record for Caspar David Friedrich, ‘Zwei Männer in Betrachtung des Mondes’ (‘Two Men Contemplating the Moon’), Gal.-Nr. 2194; c. 1819–20, oil on canvas, 35 × 44 cm. Two later variants exist (Metropolitan Museum of Art; a ‘Man and Woman’ version in the Nationalgalerie, Berlin) (skd.museum)
- Helmut Börsch-Supan & Karl Wilhelm Jähnig, ‘Caspar David Friedrich’ (Prestel, 1973), no. 261
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