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The Stages of Life (German: Die Lebensstufen) 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.The painting is set on a sea shore and shows in the foreground an aged man with his back turned to the viewer walking towards two adults and two children on a hilltop overlooking a harbour.
