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Monk Meditating near a Ruin by Moonlight
Also titled Mediterende monnik bij ruïne in de nacht
Frederik Marinus Kruseman (Haarlem, 1816–1882)
1862
- Medium
- linen (material), oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 78 cm x width 64 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
In the right foreground of this nocturnal scene a monk meditates near an overgrown ruin. This is the abbey in Villers-la-Ville near Brussels, the city where the painter lived for a while. The subject and the frame embellished with sheaves of wheat were inspired by the German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich’s famous Tetschen Altarpiece depicting a cross atop a mountain.
