# Night Landscape with a River [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [NEER, Aert van der]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 61 x 86 cm ## Commentary Night Landscape with a River - Oil on canvas, 61 x 86 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg Van der Neer enriched the tonal landscape, one of the outstanding achievements of 17th-century Dutch painting, with moonlit, and less often, sunset views. Without pursuing monumentality or outpourings of emotion, he achieved great mastery in conveying nuances of lighting. In the 19th century he was rated highly by both the pioneers of Realist landscape and the German Romantics. ## Related artworks - [A Canal by Moonlight]() - [A Moonlit Landscape with Ruins]() - [Estuary Landscape by Moonlight]() - [Fishing at Moonlight]() - [Frozen River at Sunset \(detail\)]() - [Frozen River at Sunset]() - [Landscape at Sunset]() - [Landscape at Twilight]() - [Landscape with Windmill]() - [Moonlit Wooded Landscape]() - [River in Winter]() - [River Landscape]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()