A King and Queen in Mourning is an oil on canvas painting by German artist Carl Friedrich Lessing, created in 1830, showing a royal couple mourning their daughter's death, a scene from Ludwig Uhland's poem Das Schloß am Meere. Considered the masterpiece of the "romantic-elegaic soul painting" of the Düsseldorf School, it is now in the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Bibliography Das trauernde Königspaar, 1830. In: Wend von Kalnein: Die Düsseldorfer Malerschule. Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, , pp. 389 f. (Katalog Nr. 155). Bettina Baumgärtel: Die Seelenmalerei und die neuen Helden der Geschichte. In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): Die Düsseldorfer Malerschule und ihre internationale Ausstrahlung 1819–1918. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, , vol. 2, pp. 160 f. (Katalog Nr. 124). External links Das trauernde Königspaar, Datenblatt im Portal akg-images.de References History paintings Paintings in the collection of the Hermitage Museum 1830 paintings Paintings by Karl Friedrich Lessing Adaptations of works by Ludwig Uhland