Caspar David FriedrichAllemagne, 1774–1840Night in a Harbour
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Où est « Night in a Harbour » aujourd’hui ? Musée de l'Ermitage, Salle 352, Saint-Pétersbourg. Oui, exposée actuellement. Vérifié 29 août 2026.
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À propos du tableau
Nuit au port – ou Les Sœurs sur le balcon près du port – est un tableau réalisé par le peintre allemand Caspar David Friedrich entre 1818 et 1820. Cette huile sur toile est une nocturne de format vertical qui représente deux sœurs de dos à la balustrade d'un balcon donnant sur les flèches d'une église et la mâture des bâtiments d'un port, sous la lumière de Vénus. L'œuvre est conservée depuis 1963 au musée de l'Ermitage, à musée de l'Ermitage, en Russie.
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- Numéro d’inventaire
- ГЭ-9774
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- Musée de l'Ermitage
- Image : Musée de l'Ermitage — Museum open access
Dans la vie de Caspar David Friedrich
La vie entière1816
Applies for Saxon citizenship
Wishing to distance himself from Prussian authority, Friedrich applies for Saxon citizenship in June 1816. The move is unexpected, since the Saxon government is pro-French and his paintings are seen as patriotic and distinctly anti-French, but with the help of his Dresden friend Graf Vitzthum von Eckstädt he obtains it.
1818
The Saxon Academy — but no professorship
In 1818 Friedrich becomes a member of the Saxon Academy with a yearly dividend of 150 thalers. He had hoped for a full professorship, but it is never awarded: his painting is felt to be too personal, and his point of view too individual, to serve as a fruitful example to students.
21 January 1818
Marries Caroline Bommer
Friedrich marries Caroline Bommer, the twenty-five-year-old daughter of a Dresden dyer. According to Carl Gustav Carus the marriage did not significantly change his life or personality, yet the canvases of this period, including “Chalk Cliffs on Rügen”, painted after his honeymoon, show a new levity and a brighter palette, and human figures appear ever more often.
1820
Grand Duke Nikolai Pavlovich in his studio
At the behest of his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, Grand Duke Nikolai Pavlovich visits Friedrich’s studio and returns to Saint Petersburg with a number of paintings, beginning a patronage that continues for many years.
by 1820
A recluse, “the most solitary of the solitary”
By 1820 Friedrich is living as a recluse, described by friends as the most solitary of the solitary.
1820
The birth of his daughter Emma
The Friedrichs’ first child, a daughter named Emma, is born; they will have three children. The third, Gustav Adolf, is named after the Swedish king Gustavus Adolphus and becomes a notable painter in his own right.
