View of the Rhine and Remagen from the North (?)
Purchase, Alain and Marie-Christine van den Broek d'Obrenan Gift, 2009
Catalogue
- Year
- 1815
- Dimensions
- sheet: 11 1/4 x 14 11/16 in. (28.5 x 37.3 cm)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Artist
- Ernst Fries
Artist
Painting
Ernst Fries was a German painter, draftsman, watercolourist, etcher, printmaker, and lithograph. Besides Karl Philipp Fohr and Carl Rottmann, he was the youngest of the so-called triumvirate of Heidelberg Romanticism. His works represent a transition from Romanticism to Realism.
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Record
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- Ernst Fries
- Year
- 1815
- Dimensions
- sheet: 11 1/4 x 14 11/16 in. (28.5 x 37.3 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1815-628187
Source
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified