Monks carry a coffin through snow towards a ruined Gothic church, modelled on Eldena Abbey, framed by bare oaks against a pale dusk sky. Friedrich showed it in Berlin in 1810 hung beneath his Monk by the Sea, and the Prussian king bought both. Death, ruin and the fading day meet in a single wintry image.
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A freshly dug grave opens in the snow in the foreground among leaning crosses. Two tiny candles light the procession, and a crescent moon hangs in the sky.
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