The Hoher Göll and Schönfeldspitze, 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: Landscape study showing an elevated view of the Bavarian Alps, with the Hoher Göll
label: Description
content: and Schönfeldspitze visible in the background. A green, grassy hilltop gently arches across the foreground, as two small figures sit on the slope at left. In the middle distance, overlapping, wooded mountain ridges extend into to the horizon. Due to aerial perspective, each succeeding ridge is hazier than the last. In the distance at center, the snow-capped Hoher Göll is shown with the sharp, pyramidal peak of Schönfeldspitze beside it to the right.
place: label: made in
content: Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, Germany
label: place depicted
content: Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, 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: 1917-4-579-b
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 paint and graphite on tan paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 32.6 × 50.8 cm (12 13/16 in. × 20 in.)