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The Moon

George Frederick Barker (American, 1835–1910)

ca. 1864

Albumen print

Yale University Art Gallery, Gift of Elinor Wallace Hendrickson in memory of her great grandfather, Thomas Wallace

Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight

Joseph Mallord William Turner (British, 1775–1851)

1835

Oil on canvas

The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Widener Collection

Solar Eclipse

Carleton Watkins (American, 1829–1916)

January 11, 1880

Albumen silver print

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 88.XM.92.83

The Lonely Tower

Samuel Palmer (British, 1805–1881)

1879

Etching

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Margaret Scolari Barr, 1986

The Varying Phases and Appearances of the Moon

Johannes van Loon (ca. 1611–1686)

1660

Hand-colored engraving with gold

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Moonlight

Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900)

ca. 1865

Oil and graphite on heavy cardboard

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Gift of Louis P. Church

The Contemplator

Eugène Carrière (French, 1849–1906)

1901

Oil on fabric

The Cleveland Museum of Art, In memory of Ralph King, gift of Mrs. Ralph King; Ralph T. Woods, Charles G. King; and Frances King Schafer, 1946.283

Moonlight, Wood Island Light

Winslow Homer (American, 1836–1910)

1894

Oil on canvas

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of George A. Hearn, in memory of Arthur Hoppock Hearn, 1911

Midsummer Moonrise

Dwight W. Tryon (American, 1849–1925)

1892

Oil on wood

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of International Business Machines Corporation

Copernicus

James Nasmyth (Scottish, 1808–1890)

1867

Black and white chalk, graphite, touches of blue pencil, with scale in pen and brown ink, on gray wove paper with blue fibers, squared in graphite

The Art Institute of Chicago, Margaret Day Blake and Harold Joachim Endowments

Winter Scene in Moonlight

Henry Farrer (American, 1844–1903)

1869

Watercolor

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Morris K. Jesup Fund, Martha and Barbara Fleischman, and Katherine and Frank Martucci Gifts, 1999

Courbevoie: Factories by Moonlight

Georges Seurat (French, 1859–1891)

1882–83

Conté crayon

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Alexander and Gregoire Tarnopol, 1976

Rabbit Gazing at the Moon and Stars

Unknown Chinese artist

Late 18th century

Silk embroidery on silk satin

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Alice Boney, 1954

Observation of the Moon

Francisco Fontana (Italian, 1580–1656)

Etching

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1948

Lunar Planisphere, Hypothetical Oblique Light

John Russell (British, 1745–1806)

1806

Stipple and line engraving

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

The Moon

John Adams Whipple (American, 1822–1891)

James Wallace Black (American, 1825–1896)

1857–60

Salted paper print from glass negative

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Robert O. Dougan Collection, Gift of Warner Communications Inc., 1981

Full Moon

Claude Mellan (French, 1598–1688)

1635

Engraving

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1960

Lunar Photograph, South Pole

Paul Henry (French, 1848–1905)

Prosper Henry (French, 1849–1903)

1890

Albumen silver print from glass negative

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Rolf Mayer, 1995

Crow and the Moon

Kawanabe Kyōsai 河鍋暁斎 (Japanese, 1831–1889)

ca. 1887

Ink and color on silk

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Charles Stewart Smith Collection, Gift of Mrs. Charles Stewart Smith, Charles Stewart Smith Jr., and Howard Caswell Smith, in memory of Charles Stewart Smith, 1914

Full Moon, Limache, Chile

Alfredo Helsby (Chilean, 1862-1933)

n.d.

Oil on canvas

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Chilean Embassy, Washington, D.C.

Moonlight in the Harbor at Dieppe

Henri-Charles Guérard (French, 1846–1897)

ca. 1885

Color etching and aquatint

The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Given in memory of Thomas F. Hancock by his family and friends

Drying the Linen, or Moonrise at the Priory

Maurice Denis (French, 1870–1943)

1894

Oil on canvas glued to cardboard

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift, 2020.109

Moon in the Flame

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839–1892)

February 1886

Woodblock print

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Bequest of William S. Lieberman, 2005

The Freezing of the Sea

Herbert G. Ponting (British, 1870–1935)

1913–1914

Carbon print

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 84.XP.777.8

Virgil's Tomb with a View of the Bay of Naples in the Moonlight

Carl Georg Anton Graeb (German, 1816–1884)

n.d.

Graphite, gouache, and pen and brown ink (?)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, C. G. Boerner Gift, 2008