Peder Balke - The North Cape by Moonlight, 1848

 

Peder Balke - The North Cape by Moonlight, 1848  
oil on canvas, 62 x 85 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Balke visited the North Cape only once, in 1832, but the experience became a touchstone of his imagination for the rest of his life. The tenebrous palette and expressive brushwork seen in this moonlit view are characteristic of Balke’s mature style, which stands in contrast to the more restrained naturalism of his mentor Johan Christian Dahl. When this painting (or another version) was exhibited in Oslo in the fall of 1848, a critic wrote that it "claims our interest, both for the nature of the subject itself and the singularity of the perception of the chosen moment."

Alexandre Cabanel - The Evening Angel, 1848

Alexandre Cabanel - The Evening Angel, 1848 
oil on canvas, 19 x 23 cm
Fabre Museum, Montpellier

Tsuchiya Koitsu - Summer Moon at Miyajima, from the series Collection of Views of Japan, 1936

 

Tsuchiya Koitsu - Summer Moon at Miyajima, from the series  Collection of Views of Japan, 1936
Color woodblock print, The Art Institute of Chicago

Stanislas Lepine - Caen, le long de l'Orne, effet de lune, 1876

 

Stanislas Lepine - Caen, le long de l'Orne, effet de lune, 1876

Sanford Gifford - Moonrise on the Seashore, ca.1867

 

Sanford Gifford - Moonrise on the Seashore, ca 1867
oil on canvas, 20.3 x 47 cm

Joseph Wright of Derby (1734–1797) - A moonlit landscape

 

Joseph Wright of Derby (1734–1797) -  A moonlit landscape
oil on canvas, 64.5 x 83.8 cm

Peder Severin Krøyer - Summer evening at Skagen, 1892

 

P.S. Krøyer - Summer evening at Skagen, 1892
oil on canvas,  206 × 123 cm
Skagens Museum

Joseph Wright of Derby (1734–1797) - Scene near Naples, Italy, by Moonlight

 

Joseph Wright of Derby (1734–1797) - Scene near Naples, Italy, by Moonlight 
oil on canvas, 59.1 x 74.3 cm
Derby Museum and Art Gallery

Anthonie Waterloo (Dutch, 1609–1690) - Landscape by Moonlight, ca 1676

 

Anthonie Waterloo (Dutch, 1609–1690) - Landscape by Moonlight, ca 1676
25.8 x 18 cm, Black chalk and brush and black ink with gray and grayish black wash heightened with white, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Anthonie Waterloo, a productive topographical draftsman, sketched the landscape in and around his native Utrecht. He also travelled west to Brussels and east to northern Germany, and as far as Gdańsk. This drawing recalls the countryside on Holland’s eastern border as well as the wooded area around Brussels. Waterloo made many drawings of these areas, often in black chalk and gray wash heightened with white. His darkly shaded wooded views nicely capture contrasting light in the voids. The strip of paper seamed to the lower edge is the artist’s own addition. Waterloo has recycled a fragment of one of his letters, for the reverse bears his penmanship.

Anna Gardell-Ericson (1853-1939) - Motiv från Marstrand

Anna Gardell-Ericson (1853-1939) - Motiv från Marstrand
watercolor, 31,5 x 48,5 cm