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Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Pilgrim in a Rocky Valley



CARUS, Carl Gustav (b. 1789, Leipzig, d. 1869, Dresden)
Pilgrim in a Rocky Valley c. 1820
Oil on canvas, 28 x 22 cm
Nationalgalerie, Berlin


Carus was an artist, a doctor, a naturalist, a scientist and a psychologist.

In his spare time he also wrote on art theory that made him a leading scholar of his period.

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