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Cool-toned landscape with bare trees, a white slope, a dark forested hill, and a starry blue sky.

Oil 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
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

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
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
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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

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