Mountains at Sunset
date: label: Date
content: probably 1868–1869
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 immense mountains at sunset, likely in the European Alps. A nearby, tree-covered mountain dominates the foreground at right and descends to another dark at lower right, which, itself, seems to ascend to a rocky ridge at center right. At center, a large, pyramidal peak in a rugged mountain range catches the bright pink and purple light of the setting sun. A distant, rocky, snow-capped summit peeks above the foreground prominence at upper left. At upper right, a full moon hangs in a dim blue sky.
place: label: probably made in
content: Switzerland, Germany, or Italy
label: place probably depicted
content: Switzerland, Germany, or Italy
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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: 1917-4-358
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: 11.4 × 22.9 cm (4 1/2 × 9 in.)