Karl Heilmayer - Venice, A Moonlit Night in the Bacino,1900

Karl Heilmayer - Venice, A Moonlit Night in the Bacino,1900

Frederick Stuart Church - The Witch’s Daughter, 1881

 

Frederick Stuart Church - The Witch’s Daughter, 1881

Howard Pyle - Fast Flew the Black Winged Horse, from The Garden Behind the Moon, 1895

 

Howard Pyle - Fast Flew the Black Winged Horse, from The Garden Behind the Moon by Howard Pyle, 1895

Peter Nicolai Arbo - The wild Hunt of Odin, 1872

Peter Nicolai Arbo - The wild Hunt of Odin, 1872
oil on canvas, 166 cm × 240.5 cm
National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo

Paul Hey - Snow White, 1910

 

Paul Hey - Snow White, 1910

Mednyánszky László - Evening Landscape, 1892

 

Mednyánszky László - Evening Landscape, 1892

Ohara Koson - Two deer, pine and moon, early 20th century

 

 Ohara Koson - Two deer, pine and moon, early 20th century

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi - Cooling off at Shijo, 1885

 

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi - Cooling off at Shijo, 1885

Jules Breton - The Weeders, 1868

Jules Breton - The Weeders, 1868
oil on canvas, 71.4 x 127.6 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

This is a smaller variant of a composition Breton painted in 1860 (Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha) and exhibited to wide acclaim at the Salon of 1861 and the World’s Fair of 1867 in Paris. In his autobiography, Breton described this twilight scene of peasants pulling up thistles and weeds—"their faces haloed by the pink transparency of their violet hoods, as if to venerate a fecundating star"—noting that he had discovered the subject as a "finished picture" near his native village, Courrières, in northern France.

Nils Jakob Olsson Blommér - The Water-Sprite and Ägir’s Daughters, 1850

 

Nils Jakob Olsson Blommér - The Water-Sprite and Ägir’s Daughters, 1850
oil on canvas, 114 cm x 147 cm
Nationalmuseum Stockholm