The Moon in Art

Two Men Contemplating the Moon

Caspar David Friedrich, ca. 1825–30

Virgil's Tomb by Moonlight, with Silius Italicus Declaiming

Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby), 1779

Winter Scene in Moonlight

Henry Farrer, 1869

작자미상 수월관음도 고려|作者未詳 水月觀音圖 高麗|Water-Moon Avalokiteshvara

Unidentified artist, 14th century

The Moon in its First Quarter

Claude Mellan, 1635

Full Moon: The Left Hand Moon was Photographed June 2nd, 1871. The Right Hand Moon was Photographed Aug. 29, 1871

E. & H. T. Anthony|Lewis Morris Rutherfurd, 1871

The Moon

John Adams Whipple|James Wallace Black, 1857–60

The Moon

John Adams Whipple|James Wallace Black, 1857–60

The River Elbe in Moonlight

Johan Christian Dahl, 1833

Tea Bowl with Design of Moon and Autumn Grasses

Eiraku Hozen, ca. 1825

O Lune!...Inspire-moi ce soir quelque petite pensée..., from Les Bas-Bleus, published in Le Charivari, February 28, 1844

Honoré Daumier|Aubert et Cie|Aubert et Cie, February 28, 1844

Landscape in the Moonlight

Yōgetsu, probably 18th or 19th century

Stamp seal (bifacial disk) with animals and divine symbols

Buzz Aldrin on the Moon with Components of the Early Apollo Scientific Experiments Package

Buzz Aldrin|National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)|Neil Armstrong, 1969

Searchlight on Harbor Entrance, Santiago de Cuba

Winslow Homer, 1902

Moonrise

Henri-Joseph Harpignies, 1885

Entrance to Harbor—Moonlight

David Johnson Kennedy, 1881

The Silver Lake, from the series, Views in Central Park, New York, Part 2

Louis Prang & Co., 1864

Buyō Kanazawa Hasshō Yakei|雪月花　武陽金沢八勝夜景|Full Moon at Kanazawa, Province of Musashi

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1857

歌川広重画　近江八景之内　石山秋月|Autumn Full Moon at Ishiyama Temple (Ishiyama shūgetsu), from the series Eight Views of Ōmi Province (Ōmi hakkei)

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1834–35

Takanawa no Meigetsu|東都名所　高輪之明月|Full Moon at Takanawa

Utagawa Hiroshige, ca. 1831

Landscape with the Moon

Shiokawa Bunrin, 19th century

富士飛雁蒔絵硯箱|Box for Inkstone and Writing Implements (Suzuribako) with Geese against Mount Fuji in Moonlight and (inner lid) with Plovers by the Seashore

狂月坊|The Moon-Mad Monk, or Crazy Gazing at the Moon (Kyōgetsubō)

Kitagawa Utamaro, 1789, eighth month

A Moonlit scene depicting the Areopagite judged of Athens, from Thronus Justitiae, tredecim pulcherrimus tabulis..., plate 8

Joachim Wtewael|Willem van Swanenburg|Christoffel van Sichem I, 1605

南宋 馬遠 月下賞梅圖 團扇|Viewing plum blossoms by moonlight

Ma Yuan, early 13th century

伝託磨為遠筆　月光菩薩像 「金胎仏画帖」断簡|Gakkō Bosatsu, from “Album of Buddhist Deities from the Diamond World and Womb World Mandalas” (“Kontai butsugajō”)

Takuma Tametō, mid-12th century

Farm in Moonlight

Daniel Koerner, 1938

Traveling by Moonlight

Kawabata Gyokushō, ca. 1887–92

Titelblatt, from the series "Radierte Skizzen"

Max Klinger, n.d.

Decoration for a Plate: Notre Dame

Félix Bracquemond, 1870

The Weary Ploughman, or The Herdsman, or Tardus Bubulcus

Samuel Palmer, begun 1858

Shanaō [Yoshitsune] Learns Martial Arts in Sōjōgatani (Shanaō Sōjōgatani ni heijutsu o manabu zu)

Utagawa Kunisada, 1830s (Tenpô era)

江戸近郊八景之内　玉川秋月|Autumn Moon on the Tama River

Utagawa Hiroshige, ca. 1838

雪月花　淀川|Moonlight on the Yodo River (Yodogawa), from the series Snow, Moon, and Flowers (Setsugekka)

Katsushika Hokusai, ca. 1833

Rispah, 2nd Book of Samuel, Chapter 21 (Liber Studiorum, part IX, plate 46)

Joseph Mallord William Turner|Robert Dunkarton|Joseph Mallord William Turner, April 23, 1812

(From Sketchbook)

Thomas Sully, 1810–20

Woman with a Child in the Garden Looking at the New Moon

Ryūryūkyo Shinsai, 19th century

Le Theatre Italien

Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, 1724–1780

Virgin and Child on a Crescent Moon

『高貴納涼ノ図』|Nobility in the Evening Cool (Koki nōryō no zu)

Yōshū (Hashimoto) Chikanobu, 1887

東都三十六景　隅田川三囲り堤|Sumidagawa, Mimeguri

Utagawa Hiroshige, 3rd month dragon year 1868

Yodogawa|京都名所之内　淀川|On the Yodo River

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1797–1858

東都名所　両国之宵月|Twilight Moon at Ryōgoku Bridge

Utagawa Hiroshige

銀世界|The Silver World (Gin sekai)

Kitagawa Utamaro, preface dated 1790

Print

Utagawa Kunisada

百人一首　宇波かゑとき　安部仲麿|Poem by Abe no Nakamaro, from the series One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)

Katsushika Hokusai, 1760–1849

Folio from a Mu'nis al-ahrar fi daqa'iq al-ash'ar (The Free Man's Companion to the Subtleties of Poems) of Jajarmi

Muhammad ibn Badr al-Din Jajarmi, dated A.H. 741/1341 CE