This painting is Monastery Graveyard in Snow, by the German Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich. His subjects were often like this - images of abbeys, forests and so on against a romanticised landscape. In this picture, monks process through a graveyard to enter the ruins of their abbey. It is an apparently bleak vision but ultimately an uplifting one of faith and hope.
The painting was destroyed in the allied bombing of Berlin in 1945.
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