River Landscape in Moonlight
Original title
Aert van der Neer
- Institution
- SMK – Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark) ↗
- Accession
- KMSsp447
- Rights
Public domain: the artist died in 1677. SMK marks this image as public domain (Public Domain Mark 1.0).
- Description
- A Dutch river at night under a sky of heavy clouds lit from behind by the moon. A church tower and a village stand in silhouette on the left bank, a moored boat with tall masts sits by trees on the right, and silver light catches on the water between them.
- Image
- 1600 × 1014
source file retrieved 2026-10-11 - Catalogue no.
- G-009049
coldlibrary.com/g/009049 - Credit line
- Aert van der Neer, River Landscape in Moonlight, c. 1645. SMK – Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), PDM-1.0. Via Cold Library: https://coldlibrary.com/g/009049
Aert van der Neer built a whole career on two subjects, moonlit rivers and frozen winters, and painted them with a patience few of his contemporaries shared. The moon itself is hidden; we see it only at the edges of the clouds and on the water. His son Eglon, whose reader hangs nearby, painted rooms instead.
