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The image depicts a landscape with dramatic cliffs and clear water. In the foreground, there is a path leading through a wooded area. On the left side, a person is seated on a rock in a relaxed pose. In the background, there is a large rock formation rising above the water, and the sky is filled with clouds.

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Afternoon on Capri
Datec. 1829

Artist Carl Blechen (1798 Cottbus – 1840 Berlin)

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Object typePainting
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions
91 x 130 cm
Signatureunlabelled
Inventory number1996
Location Currently not on display
Capri. Monte Castiglione and the coastline by the Marina Grande are in dazzling sunlight. This bleaches the colors and heightens the contrast between the dark shadows and the “cool” blue of the sea. In this blazing heat a young fisherman sits on a wall and plays the zither for his lover. He is essential to the scene as fishermen epitomized the carefree, authentic life in—and this is important for our understanding of Blechen’s painting—an ancient cultural landscape that had already been settled by the Greeks, as the wall illustrates. Blechen was in Capri in 1829 and made numerous sketches, although he painted this picture in his Berlin studio.

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Bettina von Arnim und Graf Oriola auf Schloss Rüdesheim, Oberhessen
1918 Ankauf Kunsthandlung Gustav Nebehay, Wien

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