The Watzmann and Königssee near Berchtesgaden, Bavaria (Germany)
date: label: Date
content: June - August 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 the Watzmann beside the Königssee, as seen from an elevated perspective near Berchtesgaden, Bavaria (present-day Germany). A hewn tree stump is shown in the immediate foreground at center, while, just beyond it, a small house provides scale for the massive mountains that surround it. At left, a steep, diagonal mountain ridge descends to a gently rolling landscape in the middle distance at center. In the distance, rugged, snow-strewn mountains of the Bavarian alps are shown--notably the Watzmann at right, and in the background at left, the granite pinnacle of the Schönfeldspitze. In the steep valley to the left of the Watzmann, a patch of the Königssee is visible.
label: Description
content: Verso: Unfinished sketch showing the outlines of snow-capped mountain peaks and a nearby wooded ridge.
place: label: made in
content: Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, Germany
label: place depicted
content: Bavaria, Germany
label: place depicted
content: Bavaira, 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: 1917-4-473-a
objectType: label: Type
content: lighting
label: Object Name
content: drawing
label: Type
content: drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite and white gouache on light brown wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 30.2 × 44.1 cm (11 7/8 × 17 3/8 in.)