instance of: painting / depicts: night

commissioned by: Salon of 1881 (2) | École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (1) | Manuel de Godoy, Prince of the Peace (1) | Constantijn Huygens (1) | Anatole Bartholoni (1)

owned by: France (4) | Paul Durand-Ruel (2) | Amsterdam (1) | Gustave Courbet (1) | Édouard Manet (1) | Isaac de Camondo (1) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (1) | Johan Christian Dahl (1) | Museum of Modern Art (1) | Jean-Baptiste Faure (1) | Carmen Cervera (1) | Ambroise Vollard (1) | Louisine Havemeyer (1) | Birmingham Museum of Art (1) | Eugène Boch (1) | John Peter Moore (1) | Denys Cochin (1) | Florence Gould (1)

movement: academic art (10) | Romanticism (5) | Post-Impressionism (2) | Dutch Golden Age painting (2) | Art Nouveau (1) | Baroque (1) | Orientalism (1) | expressionism (1) | Les Nabis (1) | Venetian school (1) | Hudson River School (1) | Realism (1) | Volcano School (1)

genre: landscape art (48) | genre art (15) | marine art (14) | nude (13) | nocturne (11) | allegory (10) | religious art (9) | astronomical art (9) | mythological painting (8) | history painting (7) | portrait (6) | cityscape (5) | animal painting (2) | self-portrait (1) | portrait at bust length (1) | capriccio (1) | schutterstuk (1) | figure painting (1)

based on: Metamorphoses (3) | Nativity of Jesus (1) | Aeneid (1) | A Midsummer Night's Dream (1) | Book of Judith (1) | Penitent Magdalene (1) | Judith and Holofernes (1)

artist: Joseph Vernet (9) | Donato Creti (8) | Vincent van Gogh (5) | Jules Lefebvre (5) | Ferdinand du Puigaudeau (5) | Caspar David Friedrich (4) | Edvard Munch (3) | Arkhip Kuindzhi (3) | William-Adolphe Bouguereau (3) | Francisco Goya (2) | Rembrandt (2) | Édouard Manet (2) | Jean-François Millet (2) | Piet Mondrian (2) | Akseli Gallen-Kallela (2) | Ivan Aivazovsky (2) | Aert van der Neer (2) | George Catlin (2)

part of the series: Astronomical Observations (8) | Two men contemplating the Moon (2) | The Card Players (1)

material used: oil paint (141) | canvas (111) | wood (10) | canvas (8) | oak (3) | copper (2) | panel (2) | paper (1) | ivory (1) | cardboard (1) | paperboard (1) | wax paint (1) | watercolor paint (1)

collection: Department of Paintings of the Louvre (19) | National Museum in Warsaw (16) | Musée d'Orsay (13) | private collection (13) | Pinacoteca Vaticana (8) | Smithsonian American Art Museum (8) | Tretyakov Gallery (6) | Rijksmuseum (5) | National Gallery (4) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (3) | Mauritshuis (3) | National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design (3) | Pori Art Museum (3) | Touko Palojoki donation collection (3) | Tate (2) | Condé Museum (2) | Musée des Augustins (2) | National Gallery of Norway (2)

location: Musée d'Orsay (13) | museum's storage space (9) | Pinacoteca Vaticana (8) | Smithsonian American Art Museum (8) | National Museum in Warsaw (7) | Tretyakov Gallery (5) | Rijksmuseum (4) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (3) | Mauritshuis (3) | National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design (3) | Pori Art Museum (3) | Room 800 (3) | National Gallery (2) | Tate (2) | Condé Museum (2) | Musée des Augustins (2) | National Gallery of Norway (2) | Yale Center for British Art (2)

part of: Black Paintings (1) | The Card Players (1) | Two men contemplating the Moon (1) | Winter Night in the Mountains (1) | The Young Martyr (1)

country of origin: United States of America (13) | France (10) | Germany (4) | Spain (1) | Netherlands (1) | Russian Empire (1) | Noruega (1)

exhibition history: The Moon: From real travel to imaginary journeys (6) | The Dance of Life – The collection from antiquity to 1950 (2) | Dahl and Friedrich. Romantic Landscapes (2) | Europeana 280 (2) | Art 3. Works from the collection 1814-1950 (2) | Ghent (1) | Brussels metropolitan area (1) | Musée d'Orsay (1) | Museum of Fine Arts (1) | Pinacoteca di Brera (1) | Alte Pinakothek (1) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (1) | Städel Museum (1) | Kunsthalle Hamburg (1) | Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (1) | Royal Academy of Arts (1) | École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (1) | Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte (1)

main subject: Nativity of Jesus (2) | building (1) | Jerome (1) | Greek War of Independence (1) | automat (1) | The civic militia lead by Frans Banninck Cocq (1) | rest on the flight into Egypt (1) | Binding of Isaac (1) | Genesis flood narrative (1) | Penitent Magdalene (1) | Judith and Holofernes (1) | Saint Sebastian tended by Saint Irene (1)

location of final assembly: Arles (3) | Paris (2) | United States of America (1) | Nuenen (1) | Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (1)

published in: Piet Mondrian: catalogue raisonné (1)

fabrication method: encaustic painting (1)