Kalvarienberg Chapel, Berchtesgaden, Bavaria (Germany)
date: label: Date
content: July 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Architecture and landscape sketch showing a view of the Kalvarienberg Chapel in the town of Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, in present-day Germany. Perched atop a heavily wooded hill in the middle distance at upper center, the shrine depicts the scene of Christ's crucifixion on Cavalry Hill in both sculpture and paint. The shrine itself has two striated columns supporting its facade, as well as a painted scene positioned beneath the apex of its gabled roof. The shrine itself and treetops behind it are rendered in some detail. At lower right, an out-of-scale, chalet-style house is also sketched.
place: label: made in
content: Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, present-day Germany
label: place depicted
content: 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: 1917-4-359-b
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and oil paint, graphite on tan paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 17.8 × 11.5 cm (7 × 4 1/2 in.)