Moonlit River Landscape with Fishermen

Hendrick Avercamp

c. 1625

pen and brown and black ink, with opaque watercolour; framing line in grey, with a gold-coloured border

Rijksmuseum

A moonlit night scene depicts a wide river with several boats and figures. Buildings and a windmill are visible on the distant shore. <div><p>…; ? sale, Michiel Laars (?-1763, Amsterdam), Amsterdam (Blinkvliet de Winter), 9 April 1764 <em>sqq.</em>, Album B, no. 78 (‘<em>Een Manescheyntje, door Van Kampen, en een door Berkheyde</em>’), with one other drawing;{Copy RKD.} …; collection Johann August Gottlieb Weigel (1773-1846), Leipzig;{According to the inscription on the verso.} his sons, Rudolph Weigel (1804-67), Leipzig, and Theodor Oswald Weigel (1812-81), Leipzig; sale, Johann August Gottlieb Weigel, Stuttgart (H.G. Gutekunst), 15 May 1883 <em>sqq.</em>, no. 44 (‘<em>Hendrik van Avercamp. Mondscheinlandschaft. [...] L. 19cm, H. 14 cm</em>’); …; collection Freih