Literature: Bordas 8.74 ; D. Frélaut 226.

This intimate etching belongs to Music's Motivo vegetale (plant motif) series, which he began following extended drawing trips to the Forêt des Maures in the Var region of southern France in 1972–73. His prolonged engagement with this landscape sparked the development of the series. Executed with his signature restraint, the piece reduces organic elements—branches, roots, or desiccated vegetation—into pared-down, almost ghostly forms that exist somewhere between direct observation and recollection. The dedication to Caspar David Friedrich situates the print within a broader tradition of Romantic nature contemplation.