Carl Gustav Carus painting coming to National Gallery
The National Gallery has acquired A View of the Sky from a Prison Window (1823) by Carl Gustav Carus (1789–1869), the first painting from the 19th-century German Romantic painter to enter a UK public collection. The picture will be on display in Room 38 and is one of the new Bicentenary acquisitions, coinciding with the opening of CC Land: The Wonder of Art, the largest ever rehang of the gallery’s collection.
Carl Gustav Carus is considered one of the key figures in German Romanticism. The physiologist and painter was born in Leipzig in 1789. A friend of writer Johann Wolfgang Goethe, he was a doctor, naturalist, scientist, psychologist, and landscape painter, having studied German Romantic painter, Casper David Friendrich.
The painting on display will join the growing collection of German 19th century art, including works by Friedric and Adolph Menzel. A View of the Sky from a Prison Window is among multiple new acquisitions announced as part of the new CC Land: The Wonders of Art, along with Ballet Dancers by Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas (1888) and A Banquet Still Life by Carl Gustav Carus (1823).
These follow recent announcements of other works acquired for the National Gallery’s Bicentenary, King David by Guercino, the early 16th-century Netherlandish or French altarpiece The Virgin and Child with Saints Louis and Margaret and the new commission for the Gallery’s Contextual Collection Mud Sun by Sir Richard Long.
These are all on now on display together with those NG200 acquisitions announced last year – Lawrence Alma-Tadema’s After the Audience, Poussin’s Eucharist and Eva Gonzales’s The Full-length Mirror.
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