1991.216: Winter Landscape by Moonlight
PaintingsOil painting of a wintery, cool-toned landscape. Bare trees grow in the foreground with ones to the left featuring long trunks and circular tops and ones to the right without visible trunks. A white slope reaches across the landscape behind the trees, dotted with shades of blue and black, along with a singular bare tree. The dark hill atop the white landscape is largely featureless though multiple smudged points at the top of the hill suggest the hill is forested. The sky is largely a blue-green with darker blue around the edges and a few small yellow stars.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1991.216
- People
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Edvard Munch, Norwegian (Loiten, Norway 1863 - 1944 Ekely, Norway)
- Title
- Winter Landscape by Moonlight
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting
- Date
- c. 1910
- Culture
- Norwegian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/221406
Location
- Location
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Level 3, Room 3500, Special Exhibitions Gallery
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Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
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85.5 x 65.4 cm (33 11/16 x 25 3/4 in.)
framed: 96 x 76.3 x 4.2 cm (37 13/16 x 30 1/16 x 1 5/8 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Harry and Patricia Irgens Larsen, gift; to Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1991.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Harry and Patricia Irgens Larsen
- Accession Year
- 1991
- Object Number
- 1991.216
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Gerd Woll, Edvard Munch: Complete Paintings, Thames & Hudson (London, 2009), vol. 3, no. 1299, repr., p. 1676
Exhibition History
- A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions from the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Central and Northern Art and Design from 1880 to the Present, Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 04/19/2000 - 07/09/2000
- Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/07/2025 - 07/27/2025
Verification Level
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