The Tree of Crows is an oil on canvas painting by the German Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich, made around 1822. It shows a gnarled, leafless oak tree silhouetted against an evening sky, crows perched on its branches or descending toward it, with a prehistoric burial mound in the middle distance and, beyond it, the sea and chalk cliffs. The painting measures about 59 by 73 centimetres and has been read as a meditation on death and the promise of an afterlife, the twisted, dead tree in the foreground set against the calm, luminous sky beyond. It is held today in the Louvre in Paris. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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c. 1822
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The Tree of Crows (also known as Raven Tree) is an oil painting
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Louvre, Paris
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The Tree of Crows is an oil on canvas painting by the German Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich, made around 1822.
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