The Watzmann and the Hochkalter near Berchtesgaden, Bavaria (Germany)
date: label: Date
content: June - July, 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Unfinished landscape study showing a view of the mountains known as the Watzmann and the Hochkalter near Berchtesgaden, Germany, and the scenery of a nearby valley. Bottom half of the composition is rendered only in graphite while the upper half is completed in oil paint. The foreground shows the lush terrain of a valley at the base of these mountains, including a curving road at lower center and pastures with structures in the middle distance at right. In the background at left, the jagged twin peaks of the Watzmann rise like fangs in the sky and catch the pink light of the setting sun. At right, the rugged and snow-strewn slopes of the Hochkalter are visible in the distance.
place: label: made in
content: Berchtesgaden, Germany
label: place depicted
content: Berchtesgaden, Germany
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Louis P. Church
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1917-4-493
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Oil and graphite on tan paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 32.4 × 50.4 cm (12 3/4 × 19 13/16 in.)