The Stages of Life is an allegorical oil painting of 1835 by the German Romantic landscape painter Caspar David Friedrich. Completed just five years before his death, this picture, like many of his works, forms a meditation both on his own mortality and on the transience of life. Caspar David Friedrich, 1834 — painted at 60. Canvas and oil paint. 72.5 × 94 cm. In the Museum der bildenden Künste. Romanticism. Wiki link