Church in the Bavarian Alps
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 and architecture sketch showing a view of a church in the Bavarian Alps, likely near Berchtesgaden. Characterized by its tall, multi-storied belltower and its steeply gabled, Gothic structure, the church is situated atop a prominence in the middle distance at center, as it catches the pinkish light of the setting sun at right. At group of trees are visible at left, while an expansive valley floor extends to the background, where multiple bulging mountain ridges are obfuscated by haze and low-lying clouds. These puffy clouds in the sky above also catch the golden-red sunset light. Comprising the lower half of the composition, an outline of a craggy, rugged mountain ridge is sketched in graphite and oppositely oriented.
label: Description
content: Verso: Indistinct sketch of a disc or semi-circle reflected in water, with an arching band within it. Possibly a rainbow over a water feature.
place: label: made in
content: Bavaria, present-day Germany
label: place depicted
content: 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: 1917-4-375-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: 27.2 × 30 cm (10 11/16 × 11 13/16 in.)