Night Landscape
Artist:
Egbert Vanderpoel
(Dutch, 1621 - 1664)
Date: 1661
Medium: Oil on wood
Classification: Visual Works
Credit Line: Gift of Allen Gerdau
Object number: 1956.49.2
DescriptionNight scene on a beach. A fleet of small square rigged sail boats are landing on the beach, unloading baskets of fish. On shore, a carriage drawn by two horses waits and in the right background over the hill a steeple is visible. The moon is full and is seen through a break in the clouds on the left. Signed lower right.