Ohara Koson - Quail in flight, Crescent Moon, 1912

 

Ohara Koson - Quail in flight, Crescent Moon, 1912

Georg Emil Libert - Klippekyst i månelys (Moonlit view of a rocky coast), between 1838 and 1908

 

Georg Emil Libert - Klippekyst i månelys (Moonlit view of a rocky coast), between 1838 and 1908
oil on canvas, 36 cm (14.1 in); width: 52 cm (20.4 in)

Joseph Mallord William Turner - Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight, 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner - Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight, 1835
oil on canvas, 92.3 x 122.8 cm (36 5/16 x 48 3/8 in)
National Gallery of Art

Here Turner brings the great force of his romantic genius to a common scene of working–class men at hard labor. Although the subject of the painting is rooted in the grim realities of the industrial revolution, in Turner's hands it transcends the specifics of time and place and becomes an image of startling visual poetry. An almost palpable flood of moonlight breaks through the clouds in a great vault that spans the banks of the channel and illuminates the sky and the water. The heavy impasto of the moon's reflection on the unbroken expanse of water rivals the radiance of the sky, where gradations of light create a powerful, swirling vortex. To the right, the keelmen and the dark, flat–bottomed keels that carried the coal from Northumberland and Durham down the River Tyne are silhouetted against the orange and white flames from the torches, as the coal is transferred to the sailing ships. To the left, square riggers wait to sail out on the morning tide. Behind these ships Turner suggested the distant cluster of factories and ships with touches of gray paint and a few thin lines. Through the shadowy atmosphere ships' riggings, keels and keelmen, fiery torches, and reflections on the water merge into a richly textured surface pattern. Via

Jules Tavernier - Volcano at Night, ca. 1885-1889

Jules Tavernier - Volcano at Night, ca. 1885-1889
oil on canvas, 19 3/4 × 36 5/8 in. (50.2 × 93 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

 

Jules Louis Machard (French, 1839-1900) - Selene, 1874

 

Jules Louis Machard (French, 1839-1900) - Selene, 1874

Joseph Mallord William Turner - Moon over Lausanne, 1836

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner - Moon over Lausanne, 1836
watercolor on paper
University of Michigan Museum of Art

John Glover - A Corroboree in Van Diemen's Land, 1840

 

John Glover - A Corroboree in Van Diemen's Land, 1840
oil on canvas, 77 cm (30.3 in); width: 115 cm (45.2 in)
Musée du Louvre, Paris

It was because of the monarch's known interest in the wider world that John Glover sent Louis-Philippe six of the pictures he had been painting in the British colony of Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), where he had moved to join his sons in 1831. Known earlier in London as a painter in the classical style of Claude, he had begun again, painting the exotic landscape and its people in a manner that is surely consciously naive, both in its extreme descriptive clarity and in the sinuous trees that seem exaggeratedly different from European forms. In one of the pictures chosen by the king, such trees arch over one of Glover's favourite subjects, the moonlight corroboree, when the Aboriginals danced at night, clutching green boughs. On the back Glover noted, 'I have seen more enjoyment and Mirth in such [an] occasion than I ever saw in a Ballroom in England.' For a time Glover's pictures hung at the royal chateau at Eu on the Channel coast, but were soon demoted by the curator as curiosities, works of ethnography not art.

John Anster Fitzgerald (1832-1906) - The Old Hall, Fairies by Moonlight; Spectres & Shades, Brownies and Banshees, c.1875

 

John Anster Fitzgerald (1832-1906) - The Old Hall, Fairies by Moonlight; Spectres & Shades, Brownies and Banshees, c.1875

Johann Moritz Rugendas (1802–1858) - A lovers' tryst by moonlight, Plaza Mayor, Lima

 

Johann Moritz Rugendas (1802–1858) - A lovers' tryst by moonlight, Plaza Mayor, Lima
oil on canvas, 14 ½ x 12in. (36.9 x 30.5 cm)

Johan Jongkind - A Windmill in Moonlight, 1868

 

Johan Jongkind - A Windmill in Moonlight, 1868
oil on canvas, 33 cm (12.9 in) x 25 cm (9.8 in)
National Gallery of Ireland

Johan Christian Dahl - View of Stege in Moonlight, 1815

 

Johan Christian Dahl - View of Stege in Moonlight, 1815
oil on canvas, 56 cm (22 in) x 78 cm (30.7 in)
KODE Art museums and composer homes

J. M. W. Turner - Lucerne: Moonlight, 1843

 

J. M. W. Turner -  Lucerne: Moonlight, 1843
oil on canvas, 29 cm (11.41 in) x 47,6 cm (18.74 in)
British Museum

Henry Lewis - Hunting the deer by moonlight, between 1854 and 1858

 

Henry Lewis - Hunting the deer by moonlight, between 1854 and 1858
color lithograph, heightened with gum arabic

Ohara Koson - Herons in shallow water, 1934

 

Ohara Koson - Herons in shallow water, 1934

Ohara Koson - Heron and moon, 1910-1930

 

Ohara Koson - Heron and moon, 1910-1930 

Henri Martin (French, 1860 – 1943) - Dante rencontre Beatrix (Dante meets Beatrice), 1898

 

Henri Martin (French, 1860 – 1943) - Dante rencontre Beatrix (Dante meets Beatrice), 1898
color litograph, 25.5 cm (10 in) x 31 cm (12.2 in)
British Museum

Kobayashi Kiyochika - Heian Period Courtier on a Moonlit Beach, 19th century

 

Kobayashi Kiyochika - Heian Period Courtier on a Moonlit Beach, 19th century
Triptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper, 14 x 9 1/2 in. (35.6 x 24.1 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Gustaf Fjæstad (1868-1948) - Månsken över Racken (Moonlight over Racken)

 

Gustaf Fjæstad (1868-1948) - Månsken över Racken (Moonlight over Racken)
oil on board, 121,5 x 96,5 cm

Georg Emil Libert (1820 - 1908) - Romantic scene with a couple enjoying the view in moonlight

 

Georg Emil Libert (1820 - 1908) - Romantic scene with a couple enjoying the view in moonlight

Ohara Koson (1900 - 1936) - Grasses at full moon

 

Ohara Koson (1900 - 1936) - Grasses at full moon

Ohara Koson (1900 - 1936) - Goose at full moon

 

Ohara Koson (1900 - 1936) - Goose at full moon

Georg Emil Libert (1820–1908) - Bjerglandskab i måneskin, med figurer ved en fossende flod (Moonlit mountain scenery with people standing at a river)

 

Georg Emil Libert (1820–1908) - Bjerglandskab i måneskin, med figurer ved en fossende flod (Moonlit mountain scenery with people standing at a river)
oil on canvas, 87 cm (34.2 in) x 63.5 cm (25 in)

Georg Emil Libert (1820 - 1908) - Evening motif of forest lake with rowing boat

 

 Georg Emil Libert (1820 - 1908) - Evening motif of forest lake with rowing boat