Woman with Spider's Web Between Bare Trees

Caspar David Friedrich (German, 1774-1840)

1803

Medium

Woodcut on ivory wove paper

Classification

Print

Dimensions

Image/block: 17 × 12 cm (6 3/4 × 4 3/4 in.); Sheet: 26 × 19.3 cm (10 1/4 × 7 5/8 in.)

Culture

Germany

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings

Credit line

Alfred E. Hamill Collection

Rights

Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.

Who can see it

Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

View at the Art Institute of Chicago

About this work

Friedrich was one of the central figures of German romanticism. In the historical and nationalist spirit of the era, he turned back to early German print­making as a model for the use of the woodcut medium as an independent art form. These wood­cuts reflect the romantic interest in nature and time.

Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0

• Romanticism
• Prints
• Trees and forests
• People
• 1800s
• Germany
• Black, white and grey