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Seaside by Moonlight is an 1818 oil on canvas painting byCaspar David Friedrich. It is now in theLouvre Museum (RF 2000-3), to which it was given by theSociété des Amis du Louvre in 2000, and now hangs in Room E on the second floor of the Aile Richelieu. It was the second Friedrich work acquired by the museum afterThe Tree of Crows in 1975.[1]
The work was produced in late August 1818 after the artist returned toDresden, where he was living, from his honeymoon on the GermanBaltic coast, where he had grown up. It drew on landscape studies he had made there, particularly inGreifswald andRügen. During that stay he also produced the drawingStudy of Ships nearVierow on 31 July, which fed directly into the painting.[2]
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