Moritz von Schwind
The Forest Chapel, um 1850/60
Öl auf Holz, 33,8 x 38,6 cm
1869 durch Adolf Friedrich Graf von Schack erworben
Inv. Nr. 11569
The Forest Chapel
Her back to the altar, a young woman has sat down on a prie-dieu outside a chapel, presumably to rest on her way through the forest. The tranquil scene is rendered in gentle colour harmonies, the green of nature combined with the grey and ochre of the chapel. The paint is applied fluently over pencil outlines reinforced with pen and ink.