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Mountain Landscape with Rainbow

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Caspar David Friedrich

Mountain Landscape with Rainbow, 1809-1810

Oil on canvas

Courtesy of Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany

A lone figure leans on a rock while the sky pulls its best trick: a rainbow after the storm. Painted in the early 19th century, when Romanticism sought the sublime in nature, this painting, washed in Friedrich’s luminosity, captures a world where the mountain glowers, the clouds linger, but the arc shows up anyway. This is a card for weathering it all. For friends who know that beauty can be dazzling and heavy all at once.

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