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The Monastery in the Forest

Carl Blechen · 1823

Carl Blechen: German, 1798 - 1840

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The Monastery in the Forest

1823

etching on chine collé · National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

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etching on chine collé
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plate: 19.5 × 24.9 cm (7 11/16 × 9 13/16 in.) sheet: 29.9 × 41.9 cm (11 3/4 × 16 1/2 in.)
Collection no.
2012.92.172
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Carl Blechen. The Monastery in the Forest. Carl Blechen; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carl_Blechen,_The_Monastery_in_the_Forest,_1823,_NGA_153554.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: National Gallery of Art

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The Monastery in the Forest — Carl Blechen. 1823.

Medium: etching on chine collé.

Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 19.5 × 24.9 cm (7 11/16 × 9 13/16 in.) sheet: 29.9 × 41.9 cm (11 3/4 × 16 1/2 in.).

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2012.92.172. Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen.

Museum holding does not establish current display.

Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.

Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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Carl Blechen. The Monastery in the Forest. Carl Blechen; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carl_Blechen,_The_Monastery_in_the_Forest,_1823,_NGA_153554.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.