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River View by Moonlight
Also titled Riviergezicht bij maanlicht
Aert van der Neer (Amsterdam, ca. –1677)
c. 1650 - c. 1655
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- support: height 55.7 cm x width 102.6 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of H.W.A. Deterding, London
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
About this work
Van der Neer was a painter with two specialities: winter scenes and nocturnal moonlit landscapes. With a limited range of colours, Van der Neer here created the perfect illusion of a moonlit night. The chilly moonlight is reflected in the water, glances off the windowpanes of the houses at left, and lights up the white feathers of the ducks in the foreground.
