Woman at a Window

 

Caspar David Friedrich. 1822.

The painting above by Caspar David Friedrich is titled Woman at a Window (Frau am Fenster). Painted in 1822, it is on display at the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin. This is a museum I visited last June on my way to meetings in Prague. The Friedrich painting features his wife Caroline as she is looking out the window of his Dresden studio at a passing ship on the River Elbe.

I share this as it is from the time when Dorothea Gagelmann Hesse was pregnant with Marie Elisabeth. Caroline may have been close in age to Dorothea, and I think this image also helps us think about Dorothea from the same time.