Description
The picture shows the painter leaning on the back of a chair, focused entirely upon the on the easel before him.
It is not possible for the viewer to see what the artist sees, because only the back of the canvas is visible. Friedrich, apparently lost in thought, holds in his right hand a brush, and in his left a mahlstick, palette, and several other brushes.
The studio is ascetically bare. Only two other palettes, a straightedge, and a t-square hang upon the wall.
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