Moonrise
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
34 1/2 x 64 1/4 in. (87.6 x 163.2 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Arnold and Tripp, 1886
Accession Number
86.6
Tags
Art Historical Context
Henri-Joseph Harpignies *Moonrise* (1885) is a captivating oil on canvas landscape that evokes the serene magic of twilight. Measuring an impressive 34½ × 64¼ inches, this panoramic work captures a luminous moon emerging over a tranquil evening scene, likely featuring watery expanses or gentle horizons as suggested by the artist's affinity for poetic natural vistas. Donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in1886 by Arnold and Tripp, it the collection just a year after its creation, highlighting its immediate appeal. Harpignies, a prominent French painter of the Barbizon School (1819–1916), ...
About the Artist
Henri-Joseph Harpignies · 1819–1916
Henri-Joseph Harpignies (1819–1916) was a French landscape painter and watercolorist of extraordinary longevity whose career spanned nearly the entire history of nineteenth-century French art. Born in Valenciennes in northern France, he came to painting relatively late, beginning serious study only in his late twenties under Jean-Alexis Achard, a landscape painter working in the naturalist traditi...