View of Dresden by Moonlight
Artist	Johan Christian Dahl
Year	1839
Type	Oil on canvas, landscape painting
Dimensions	78 cm × 130 cm (31 in × 51 in)
Location	Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden

View of Dresden by Moonlight (German: Blick auf Dresden bei Vollmondschein) is an 1839 landscape painting by the Norwegian artist Johan Christian Dahl.^[1][2] Dahl settled in the Saxon capital Dresden where, along with Caspar David Friedrich, he was known for his romantic landscapes.^[3] The night view of the city features a number of notable landmarks silhouetted by the River Elbe including the Frauenkirche, Dresden Cathedral and the Augustus Bridge.^[4]

The work is today in the collection of the Galerie Neue Meister in Dresden, having been acquired in 1937.^[5] Dahl had previously produced an 1823 work Dresden in the Moonlight, now in a private collection.

References

Bibliography

• Bischoff, Ulrich, Hipp, Elisabeth & Nugent, Jeanne Anne. From Caspar David Friedrich to Gerhard Richter: German Paintings from Dresden. Getty Publications, 2006
• Vaughan, William. German Romantic Painting. Yale University Press, 1994.
• Wolf, Norbert. Painting of the Romantic Era. Taschen, 1999.

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