The Draughtsman 158 ject is at its most subtle in his painting Woman at a Window (fig. 28, p. 204). He has deliberately positioned his wife Caroline in front of the window in such a way that we cannot look out onto the Elbe, onto the riverbank known as the Neustädter Ufer. Friedrich keeps the viewer trapped inside, just as he himself hardly ever left his studio. Only at dusk did he venture outside, because then the overpowering silhouette of the city was muted, and he could train his original gaze on the world in the twilight. 1 Caspar David Friedrich, Meadows near Greifswald, 1821/1822, oil on canvas, 34.5 × 48.3 cm, Hamburger Kunsthalle, inv. HK-1047 (BS/J 285). 2 Caspar David Friedrich, Neubrandenburg in the Morning Mist, 1816/1817, oil on canvas, 91 × 72 cm, Greifswald, Pommersches Landesmuseum (BS/J 225). 3 Bernardo Bellotto, called Canaletto, Dresden from the Right Bank of the Elbe Below the Augustus Bridge, 1748, oil on canvas, 133×237 cm, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Gal.-Nr. 606. 4 Bernardo Bellotto, called Canaletto, The Market Square of Pirna, 1753/1754, oil on canvas, 136 × 239.5 cm, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Gal.-Nr. 623. 5 Caspar David Friedrich, The Greifswald Market Square, 1818, watercolour on paper, 54.5×67 cm, Pommersches Landesmuseum, Greifswald (BS/J 251). 6 These forms are also to be seen in his 1824 oil sketch Evening (Sunset behind the Dresden Hofkirche), 1824, oil on canvas, 20.8 × 24.7 cm, private collection (BS/J 320). 7 Caspar David Friedrich, Evening Star, c. 1830, oil on canvas, 33 × 45.2 cm, Frankfurt am Main, Freies Deutsches Hochstift/Frankfurter Goethe-Museum, inv. IV-1950-007 (BS/J 389). 8 Caspar David Friedrich, The Augustus Bridge in Dresden, c.1830, oil on canvas, measurements unknown, Hamburger Kunsthalle (destroyed in fire in Munich 1931), inv. E-1054 (BS/J 384). 2 Caspar David Friedrich Spruce Study (left); Hausmannsturm, Tower of the Hofkirche, Dome of the Frauenkirche, Ridge Turret of the Altstadt Town Hall (right) Disbound Berlin Sketchbook II, pp. 56, 57 23 April 1800 | CAT 29
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