Seashore by Moonlight (between 1660 and 1664) by Egbert van der Poel.
The moon in art. A wide-ranging theme so there’ll be more tomorrow.
Two Men Contemplating the Moon (1820) by Caspar David Friedrich.
Cornfield in Moonlight (c. 1830) by Samuel Palmer.
Moonlit Seascape With Shipwreck (1863) by Ivan Aivazovsky.
In Peril (1879) by John Atkinson Grimshaw.
Full Moon over Kilauea (1887) by Jules Tavernier.
Moonrise (1889) by Frederic Edwin Church.
Summer Evening at Skagen Beach (1899) by Peder Severin Krøyer.
Previously on { feuilleton }
• Lunation: Art on the Moon
• Somnium by Steve Moore
• Blood on the Moon
• Filippo Morghen’s Voyage to the Moon
A few good examples to be found in perusing this guy’s archives. The text is in Russian but the layout is easy enough to figure out.
http://vergvoktre.blogspot.ru
Good one, thanks!