Art, literature & history
Berchtesgaden with the Watzmann Peak in the Distance
1822
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- watercolor over graphite on wove paper
- Dimensions
- sheet: 34.5 x 50 cm (13 9/16 x 19 11/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2011.52.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Ernst Fries. Berchtesgaden with the Watzmann Peak in the Distance. Ernst Fries; 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:Ernst_Fries,_Berchtesgaden_with_the_Watzmann_Peak_in_the_Distance,_1822,_NGA_155534.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Berchtesgaden with the Watzmann Peak in the Distance — Ernst Fries. 1822.
Medium: watercolor over graphite on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 34.5 x 50 cm (13 9/16 x 19 11/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2011.52.1. Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund.
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.