# The Monastery in the Forest

- By: Carl Blechen (German, 1798 - 1840)
- Date: 1823
- Medium: etching on chine collé
- Classification: Print
- Dimensions: plate: 19.5 × 24.9 cm (7 11/16 × 9 13/16 in.) ; sheet: 29.9 × 41.9 cm (11 3/4 × 16 1/2 in.)
- Credit line: Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen
- Museum: [National Gallery of Art](https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.153554.html)
- Rights: [Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://api.nga.gov/iiif/481f392a-4ea1-408d-a21c-744fd7f78a0d/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)