Wanderer in the Storm
The figure of a wanderer in an untamed natural setting personified restless yearning for the German Romantics. Man’s loneliness and nature’s transience, themes clearly stated in this picture, find direct parallels in the works of the painter Caspar David Friedrich and the composer Franz Schubert, notably his song cycle Die Winterreise, or Winter Journey (1827).
Credit: Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 2008
1835
Oil on canvas
42.5 x 56.5cm
2008.7
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019
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