Casper David Friedrich - 'Chasseur In The Forest' 1814
The German forest had a particular meaning to the artist as in 1814 When he celebrated the expulsion of the French, it was with 'The Chasseur in the Forest', a haunting image of a solitary French dragoon lost in a wood of evergreens. It is a compassionate picture: the invader's fate is just and inevitable, but also sad, and seems to belong to the same higher natural destiny as the forest's vigorous growth.
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