On the back of the painting, a clipping from an old catalogue reads: ´Friedrich. […] Die Gans in der sächsischen Schweiz bei Sonnenuntergang´. (Friedrich. [...] The Goose in Saxon Switzerland at Sunset). The attribution to Caspar David Friedrich is not correct, but the location is. Die Gans (The Goose) is part of a rock formation near the Bastei. It lies to the north of the Elbe, so that we are looking eastwards, directly into the sunrise. Wagner exhibited a Landscape with morning light at the Dresden Academy Exhibition in 1821, which may be this painting. Ludwig Richter praised it: ‘[I]n Wagner's nature studies [we saw] the forms of nature as we had them before us in reality and not translated according to a template’.