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=Two Men Contemplating the Moon by Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840)=

Characteristics
Original title: Zwei Männer in Betrachtung des Mondes

Date: between circa 1825 and circa 1830

Medium: oil on canvas

Style: Romanticism

Genre: genre painting

Current location: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

Description
One of Friedrich’s best known paintings, Two Men Contemplating the Moon is ranked among the most iconic works of art of German Romanticism. There exist several variants, out of which the 1819/20 version, housed in the Galerie Neue Meister in Dresden, is considered the original one.

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The painting in the Met collection

The painting in film