Mountain Peak with Drifting Clouds by Friedrich in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2025

Title: Mountain Peak with Drifting Clouds

Artist: Caspar David Friedrich

Date: ca. 1835

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 9 13/16 × 12 1/16 in. (25 × 30.6 cm)
Framed: 15 in. × 17 1/2 in. × 3 in. (38.1 × 44.5 × 7.6 cm)

Credit Line: Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth (AP 1984.08)

Object No.: CDF.030

The splintered trunk blocking the path to the green turf is both a realistic depiction of an obstacle common to mountain hikes and a metaphor for struggle and ambition. In 1984 this became the first painting by Friedrich to enter a museum collection in the United States, when it was acquired by the Kimbell Art Museum in Texas.


Text from: www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/caspar-david-friedrich-the-soul-of-nature/exhibition-objects