# Monk Meditating near a Ruin by Moonlight

- By: Frederik Marinus Kruseman (Haarlem, 1816–1882)
- Date: 1862
- Medium: linen (material), oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: height 78 cm x width 64 cm
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-A-5032--6b4fbbb112a149475cd03d4098745798)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/38bcadae3538dfc89af00632817e16b7.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.