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Valenciennes is regarded as a key figure in the developments that occurred in French landscape painting during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He was among the first to emphasise the practice of painting landscape scenes en plein air (in the open air), and was responsible for elevating the status of the landscape scene as an accepted academic genre. This painting has two focuses. In the centre the bright full moon illuminates the clouds and the landscape below; its reflection highlights the calm water of the river and draws the eye into the deep perspective of the painting. To the left in the foreground a more intricate scene takes place. Under tall poplar trees, a woman prays at a grave in a cemetery, its gateway marked with a cross.
Title
Landscape, Moonlight
Date
1817
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 33.1 x W 41.2 cm
Accession number
B.M.417
Acquisition method
bequeathed by the Founders, 1885
Work type
Painting
The Bowes Museum
Barnard Castle, County Durham DL12 8NP England
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