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Night landscape painting: full moon through clouds over a dark village with a windmill and church spire, reflected water in foreground.

Moonlit Landscape with Village and Windmill

A dark night landscape under a cloudy sky, with a full moon glowing through clouds at upper left. A windmill and low trees stand on the left, and a church spire rises among dark buildings on the right, with a glint of water in the foreground.

Artist
Aert van der Neer (mentioned on object)
Date
1640-1650
Medium
Source
Rijksmuseum
Size
4000 × 2783 px
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Public domain · Rijksmuseum marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1650.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Rijksmuseum, image license https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

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