Three visitors in town clothes look out from the white chalk cliffs of Rügen over a pale, luminous sea, framed by two leaning trees. Friedrich painted it after his 1818 honeymoon trip to the island. The woman in red is usually taken as his wife Caroline, and the man crouching on the grass beside his hat, peering over the edge, as the painter himself.
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Two tiny sailing boats float far out on the sea. The figures' clothes, red, blue and green, have been read as love, faith and hope.
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