Genre
Moonlight
Moonlight is the painter’s most demanding key: a cool, near-monochrome glow that drains colour and silvers every edge. The nocturne is its genre — silent landscapes and sleeping harbours where the light is just enough to see by, and the dark does most of the describing.
Key artists
Works
Virgil's Tomb by Moonlight, with Silius Italicus Declaiming
Drying the Linen, or Moonrise at the Priory
Old English House by Moonlight
Skagen Beach in Moonlight
Harvest Moon
The Heroine Who Waits Anxiously for Her Absent Lover (Utka Nayika)
A prince celebrating Holi with palace women on a terrace at night (recto); calligraphy of a quatrain (verso)
A prince celebrating Holi with palace women on a terrace at night (recto)
The Contemplator
View of the Colosseum by Night
The Batavians Besiege the Roman Army Regiments at Vetera,
Monk Meditating near a Ruin by Moonlight
Moonlit Riverscape
Moonlight
Moonlight
Gebirgslandschaft bei Mondschein mit Viehherde und Hirten
Uniate woman
In pursuit of an idea
Fleeing
Night
Pines
東海道五十三次之内 沼津 黄昏図|Numazu Ki Kure
Blasted Tree and Flattened Crops
Das Schloss am Meer (Castle on the Sea)
The Legend of the Wolves
The Apparition in the Forest
Pyramus og Tisbe
Mondnacht / Versuchung
Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome
Moonlit night at the lake
Moonlight
Despair
The Month of Ashvin (September-October), from a manuscript of the Barahmasa ("Twelve Months")
Vessel in the Moonlight
Moonlight
A Windmill in Moonlight
Night Scene with Poachers
Haymaker
Conversation of Statues
Cottages in Snow
The Cameldolites' Monastery at Bielany near Krakow
Thenot under Fruit Tree
A Lakeside Chapel by Moonlight
Rêverie dans la nuit (Evening Reverie)
The Flight into Egypt
A Midnight Race on the Mississippi
New Moon and Evening Star
Rêverie dans la nuit (Evening Reverie)
O Lune!... inspire-moi ce soir quelque petite pensée...
Colinet Resting by Night
La soiree
An Early Riser
Clair de lune à Valmondois (Moonlight at Valmondois)
Square Napoléon
Lycidas
Moonlight on a River
Phrosine and Melidore
Ten Pound Island Gloucester
Etoiles filantes![Le Couvre-Feu (The Curfew) [recto]](https://artifactworldgallery.com/img/felix-hilaire-buhot--le-couvre-feu-the-curfew-recto--d8d194fc93088a67-w320.webp)
Le Couvre-Feu (The Curfew) [recto]
Moonlight at Low Tide
Moonlight at Valmondois (Clair de lune a Valmondois)
The Weary Ploughman
Summer Night Moon
Misty Moonlight
The Sorrows of Ossian
Column VII
Moonlit Night (1958)
Moonlight near Yarmouth
Moonlight Boating Party
Midnight Moon
Tigers in a Jungle
Dózsa's People
Maharao Umed Singh of Kota hunting at night
Baz Bahadur and Rupmati
Sudama and Krishna
Ramakali Ragini
St Peter's Church, Derby, by Moonlight
Schloss Kronborg im Mondschein
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Stegeborgin linnan rauniot kuutamolla
Kalastuspaikka kuutamolla
Ruotsalainen sotilas ja puolalainen tyttö
Ion Heliade Rădulescu
St Peter's Church, Derby, by Moonlight
木曽海道六拾九次之内 長久保|Nagakubo
木曽海道六拾九次之内 望月|Mochizuki Station
Fanny Cerrito as Ondine in 'Ondine, ou La Naïade'
Prositapatika Nayika
Sunderland harbour: moonlight
River scene
"What's the tip?" Matemneh Jany- 20th- 1885
Moonlight: River Scene
The Backs, Cambridge: Twilight Scene
Trooper on A Camel
Kenilworth Castle by moonlight
Lyme
A night march - Just off
The Witch's Home, No.2. "She's Off"
木曽海道六拾九次之内 長久保|Nagakubo Station
江戸名所 高輪月の景|Takanawa Tsuki no Kei
葛飾北秀画 月下の兎|Rabbit in the Snow beneath the Moon 月下の兎
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Shōkei|Celebrated Waterfall
Vesuvius from Posilipo, Italy
Dovedale, by Moonlight
St Peter's Church by moonlight
Virgil's Tomb
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Sketches made during the Campaign of 1854-55 in the Crimea, Circassia and Constantinople
Moonlight
Endymion and Selene
Allington Castle, near Maidstone, Kent. Moonlight
Miners' Houses, Glace Bay
Monumental Sculpture in a Moonlit Park
The Fox and the Turkey Hens
名所江戸百景 王子装束ゑの木大晦日の狐火|New Year's Eve Foxfires at the Changing Tree, Ōji
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Skirmish at Night between Norwegian and Swedish Cavalry
The Flight into Egypt
A Fire at Night
Midsummer's Eve. Sick People Asleep upon the Grave of St. Helena at Tisvilde
Moonlight Conference
The Moon Rising over a Village
Moonlight
The Forest of Fontainebleau
Fingal Sees the Ghosts of his Forefathers by Moonlight
Skagen Beach in Moonlight
Άτιτλο
Moonlight
The Crossing over the Little Belt at Snoghøj. Moonrise
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Moonstruck
Nagakubo (Station 28) from the series Sixty-Nine Stations of the Kisokaido
The Rising Moon
Sketches of Famous Places in Japan: Asakusa Kinryūzan Temple
Cloth Fulling Jewel River in Settsu, from the series Six Jewel Rivers of the Various Provinces
The Advance Guard of the Grand Army of the United States Crossing the Long Bridge over the Potomac, at 2 a.m. on May 24, 1861
Moonlight on the Medway at Chatham
The Lonely Tower
Poem by Emperor Sanjo, from the series One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets Explained by an Old Nurse
Christmas (Folding the Last Sheep)
The New Moon
Night Fishing
The Midnight Coast
The Sepulchre
New Yoshiwara (Shin Yoshiwara), from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital
H Beard Print Collection
Moon and Figs
H Beard Print Collection
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Nagauta Shamisen
Frequently asked questions
What is Moonlight?
Moonlight is the painter’s most demanding key: a cool, near-monochrome glow that drains colour and silvers every edge.
How many Moonlight works does Artifact World Gallery have?
Artifact World Gallery holds 160 public-domain Moonlight works, all free to view and download.
Who are the key Moonlight artists?
Key Moonlight artists in the collection include Rosa Bonheur, Johan Jongkind and Winslow Homer.