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Moonlight over Two Windmills, Signed Oil on Canvas, Late 1800s, Gilt Frame The painting shown to scale on a carved marble mantel between two candelabra

Moonlight over Two Windmills, Signed Oil on Canvas, Late 1800s, Gilt Frame

European School, late 19th century

Medium

Oil on canvas

Painting size

13 x 18 in. (33 x 46 cm.)

Signature

Signed indistinctly lower right

Period

Late 19th century

Framed size

17 x 22 in. (43 x 56 cm.)

Price

$3,200 USD

Frame. Fluted and gilded wood frame with a twisted rope molding on the outer edge, small gaps along the lower edge

Condition. Good condition. The canvas is unlined and the surface stable. An old restoration is visible from the reverse as a lighter patch to the right of center.

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Moonlight over two windmills beside a canal, signed oil on canvas, late 19th century, in a fluted gilt frame
The painting shown to scale on a carved marble mantel between two candelabra
The canvas has never been relined, an old restoration showing as a lighter patch on the reverse
Seen from an angle, the fluted gilt frame and its twisted rope moulding
The rope moulding at the corner, the gilding rubbed back to the bole along the high points
The clouds are dragged sideways the whole width of the canvas and opened in one place only
Moonlight falling on the water of the canal and on the gable ends of two white cottages
The painter's signature in the lower right corner, worked into the wet paint of the grass
Moonlight over two windmills beside a canal, signed oil on canvas, late 19th century, in a fluted gilt frame
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European School, late 19th century
Moonlight over Two Windmills
Oil on canvas

Signed indistinctly lower right. 13 x 18 inches (33 x 46 cm), the frame 17 x 22 inches (43 x 56 cm). Fluted gilt frame. Unlined and in good condition, with an old restoration seen from the reverse.

A canal winds back from the foot of the canvas between two windmills. One is turned three quarters away, the other shows its gallery and its stage, and a third is barely there on the horizon. Two white cottages sit at the left. A small figure walks the path in the foreground.

The clouds are dragged sideways in long strokes across the whole upper half and opened only where the moon is, and the light that comes through falls on the water and on the gable ends of the cottages. Everything below the skyline is painted in greens and browns so close in value that the eye keeps returning to the sky.

Note

A moonlit landscape cannot be worked on the spot. There is not enough light to mix a color or to judge one against another, and the effect lasts as long as a cloud takes to cross. Painters who made them worked from daylight studies and from memory, back in the studio, which is why the moonlight subject is one of the few nineteenth century landscape types that never belonged to the plein air painters at all.

Condition report

Age shows on close inspection.

Good condition. The canvas is unlined and the surface stable. An old restoration is visible from the reverse as a lighter patch to the right of center.

European School, late 19th century

Moonlight over Two Windmills, Signed Oil on Canvas, Late 1800s, Gilt Frame

European School, late 19th century
Size 13 x 18 in.Framed 17 x 22 in.
ConditionGood See report and photos ↓
FramePeriod frame · Giltwood
Medium Oil on canvasLate 19th century
Price $3,200 USD
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Details

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Oil on canvas · Late 19th century · Signed · Period frame

The reverse

Unlined canvas, never relined

Artist
European School, late 19th century
Origin
Northern Europe
Size
13 x 18 in. (33 x 46 cm.)
Signature
Signed indistinctly lower right
Frame
Period frameGiltwoodFluted and gilded wood frame with a twisted rope molding on the outer edge, small gaps along the lower edgeFramed 17 x 22 in. (43 x 56 cm.)

What the grades mean

All grades are relative to the age of the painting. They describe the painting itself, the frame is described separately. Fine age craquelure is normal and never lowers a grade.

Where signs of age can be seenUp closeAt normal viewing distance
Very goodminorNo
GoodThis paintingYesNo
FairYesYes
Needs conservationYesdamage

GoodThis painting

Stable. Signs of age or earlier restoration are visible on close inspection, such as small retouches or a slightly yellowed varnish. The overall appearance is intact.

Other grades

Very good

Stable. Only minor, old retouches or very small losses, not distracting at normal viewing distance. The canvas may have been relined or cleaned in the past.

Fair

Stable and ready to hang, but wear or earlier restoration is noticeable at normal viewing distance, such as visible retouching, a discoloured varnish or scattered small losses.

Needs conservation

Visible damage a conservator should treat, such as flaking, a tear, larger losses or heavy old repaint. Every issue is shown in the photographs.

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Moonlight over Two Windmills, 1800s

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