Mist above the Königssee, 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: Landscape sketch showing a view of mist over the Königssee, viewed from the road to the Malerwinkel, near Berchtesgaden, Bavaria (present-day Germany). A tall conifer tree grows out of a rocky outcropping on a slope in the foreground at lower left, which descends to a line of trees along the lakeshore in the middle distance at lower center. The surface of the Königssee extends from the middle distance to the background at lower right, bounded by sheer mountainsides that plunge into the lake at left and right. At upper left and upper center, a bank of mist luminously glows at it catches the sun's light. A steep, rugged mountainside is silhouetted by the mist in the middle distance at center. At upper right, a patch of blue sky is visible through the thick clouds.
place: label: made in
content: near Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, present-day Germany
label: place depicted
content: near Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, present-day 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: 1917-4-562-a
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and oil, graphite on tan paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 27.5 × 30.1 cm (10 13/16 × 11 7/8 in.)