Gustav Caillebotte - Young man at his window
Fans of Caspar David Friedrich’s great masterpiece “Wanderer above the Sea of Fog” will be familiar with the imagery of a man gazing out at the world before him.
It can be taken as a symbol for being “king of all we survey” - or as a reminder of the astonishing beauty of nature - or, indeed, as a metaphor for the sheer terror we can sometimes feel when …
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