“Early Snow” is a landscape artwork created by Caspar David Friedrich in 1828. This piece, characteristic of the Romanticism art movement, is currently located in the Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
The artwork portrays a serene winter scene with an emphasis on nature’s tranquil beauty. A path meanders through a forest lightly dusted with the season’s first snowfall. Tall evergreen trees, their branches lightly coated with snow, form a dense and almost mystical canopy. The sky, visible through the tops of the trees, hints at the onset of a cold winter day. The composition captures the stillness and quietude of the winter forest, inviting the viewer into a moment of reflective solitude.