# A Canal by Moonlight

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## Artwork

- Artist: [NEER, Aert van der](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/neer-aert-van-der-r3998a165ee7291>)
- Date: 1601-1650
- Technique: Oil on oak panel, 43 x 69 cm

## Commentary

Aert Van der Neer painted his first moonlit landscape in 1643 and his mastery of this genre established him as one of the most innovative Dutch landscape painters of the 17th century. His mature style of depicting the light of the moon diffused and reflected across a monochrome landscape allowed for a continuation of elements from his tonal period of the previous decades.

## Related artworks

- [A Moonlit Landscape with Ruins](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/neer-aert-van-der-r3998a165ee7291/a-moonlit-landscape-with-ruins-r534326078490ea>)
- [Estuary Landscape by Moonlight](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/neer-aert-van-der-r3998a165ee7291/estuary-landscape-by-moonlight-r5cdcf03e44a6ce>)
- [Fishing at Moonlight](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/neer-aert-van-der-r3998a165ee7291/fishing-at-moonlight-rff27c06b98c540>)
- [Frozen River at Sunset \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/neer-aert-van-der-r3998a165ee7291/frozen-river-at-sunset-detail-r1f10130212da85>)
- [Frozen River at Sunset](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/neer-aert-van-der-r3998a165ee7291/frozen-river-at-sunset-r08141314c47e9a>)
- [Landscape at Sunset](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/neer-aert-van-der-r3998a165ee7291/landscape-at-sunset-rc192806171c096>)
- [Landscape at Twilight](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/neer-aert-van-der-r3998a165ee7291/landscape-at-twilight-r9b42335ad7cd63>)
- [Landscape with Windmill](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/neer-aert-van-der-r3998a165ee7291/landscape-with-windmill-r9d5cee5d18a842>)
- [Moonlit Wooded Landscape](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/neer-aert-van-der-r3998a165ee7291/moonlit-wooded-landscape-r36f9c6b915e2b8>)
- [Night Landscape with a River](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/neer-aert-van-der-r3998a165ee7291/night-landscape-with-a-river-r07d66c1edd9029>)
- [River in Winter](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/neer-aert-van-der-r3998a165ee7291/river-in-winter-r7e0e98624b76fd>)
- [River Landscape](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/neer-aert-van-der-r3998a165ee7291/river-landscape-r400303729bc1ab>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)