# Estuary Landscape by Moonlight [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [NEER, Aert van der]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on panel, 63 x 76 cm ## Commentary This painting is a fine and characteristic example of Van der Neer's nocturnal estuary scenes for which he was much admired, both in his own day and in subsequent centuries. Most of these nocturnal scenes take place by moonlight, sometimes with the moon removed outside the picture space or hidden behind a bank of clouds for greater dramatic effect, as here. The detail of the figures gathered around a camp-fire in the lower right foreground shows the influence of the works of Van der Neer's brother Raphael Govaertsz. Camphuysen. The painting is signed with monogram lower right: AVDN. <P> <TABLE ALIGN=LEFT CELLPADDING=5 BORDER=1 WIDTH=320 BGCOLOR="\#99CCCC"> <TR VALIGN=MIDDLE><TD><IMG SRC="/support/gif/listen.gif" BORDER=0 VALIGN=MIDDLE> Suggested listening \(streaming mp3, 16 minutes\):<BR><A HREF="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/music1/beethoven/beethoven\_moonlight\_sonata.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=350,height=350'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return true"><B>Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor op. 27 No. 2 \(Moonlight\)</B></A> </TD></TR></TABLE> ## Related artworks - [A Canal by Moonlight]() - [A Moonlit Landscape with Ruins]() - [Fishing at Moonlight]() - [Frozen River at Sunset \(detail\)]() - [Frozen River at Sunset]() - [Landscape at Sunset]() - [Landscape at Twilight]() - [Landscape with Windmill]() - [Moonlit Wooded Landscape]() - [Night Landscape with a River]() - [River in Winter]() - [River Landscape]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()