Die Frau mit dem Spinnennnetz zwischen kahlen Baumen (Seated Woman with a Spider's Web)
Cut by Christian Friedrich German
Designed by Caspar David Friedrich German
Not on view
This image was designed by the German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich and cut into a wood block by his brother, Christian, a furniture-maker by trade. Like many of the painter’s landscapes, this small scene of a woman seated at the base of a dead tree is emotionally resonant. Her face is hidden as she gazes into the distance, and the only movement is the activity of the spider that weaves a web above her head. Indeed, the print is sometimes referred to with the title "Melancholy," a nod to Friedrich’s debt to Albrecht Dürer’s sixteenth-century print of the same subject.
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