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From dusk to moonlight

Night

The hours after the light goes. Hiroshige's geese crossing the full moon and his night rain on Lake Biwa, Harunobu's woman looking at plum blossom in the dark, Dahl's Copenhagen harbour by moonlight, a ship under the moon at sea, Rousseau's forest in the last of the sunset, and a moon among clouds brushed in ink. Moons, clouds and a great deal of deep blue.

As a puzzle

Beautiful and slow. The moon, its path across the water and the bright edges of cloud give you your first pieces, and then comes a great deal of dark blue and black that only edge shape will sort. The woodblock prints are the kindest of these, with flat colour and firm outlines even at night, so start there and keep the count low for the oil paintings.

A good size here: 40–150 pieces.

Styles here: Ukiyo-eRomanticismNordic PaintingAmerican PaintingJapanese PaintingZen InkBarbizon SchoolImpressionismRealism

Painters here: Utagawa HiroshigeThéodore RousseauJohn Frederick KensettSuzuki HarunobuGeorge InnessUtagawa Kuniyoshi

28 pictures, pick one to build

Six Jewel Rivers from Various Provinces Utagawa Hiroshige, 1857 Wild Geese Flying under the Full Moon Utagawa Hiroshige, ca. 1833 On the Beach, Sunset Eugène Boudin, 1865 Sunset on the Sea John Frederick Kensett, 1872 River Landscape in Evening Seal of Kano Motonobu, 16th century Landscape in the Moonlight Attributed to Yōgetsu, probably 18th or 19th century The Forest in Winter at Sunset Théodore Rousseau, ca. 1846–67 Twilight Anton Mauve Ship by Moonlight Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (Hovhannes Aivazian) The North Cape by Moonlight Peder Balke, 1848 Night Rain at Karasaki, from the series Eight Views of Ōmi (Ōmi hakkei no uchi) Utagawa Hiroshige, ca. 1835 Evening at Medfield, Massachusetts George Inness, 1875 Goose and Reeds; Willows in the Moonlight Maruyama Ōkyo 円山応挙, right screen: 1774; left screen: 1793 Moon amid Clouds Inscription by Seisetsu Shūcho, early 19th century Sunset near Arbonne Théodore Rousseau, ca. 1860–65 Sunset after a Storm on the Coast of Sicily Andreas Achenbach, 1853 Moonlight, Strandgade 30 Vilhelm Hammershøi, 1900–1906 Woman Admiring Plum Blossoms at Night Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木春信, ca. 1766 Twilight in the Cedars at Darien, Connecticut John Frederick Kensett, 1872 Moonlit Landscape Nagasawa Rosetsu 長澤蘆雪, 1794–95 Mother and Child by the Sea Johan Christian Dahl, 1830 An Evening beside Lake Arresø Johan Thomas Lundbye, ca. 1837 Stone of Three Lights: Sun, Moon and Star Keisai Eisen, 19th century Copenhagen Harbor by Moonlight Johan Christian Dahl, 1846 View from the Citadel Ramparts in Copenhagen by Moonlight Martinus Rørbye, 1839 Night Rain at the Double-Shelf Stand, from the series Eight Parlor Views (Zashiki hakkei) Suzuki Harunobu, ca. 1766 Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct Théodore Géricault, 1818 Autumn, from the series Women’s Pleasures of the Four Seasons Utagawa Kuniyoshi, ca. 1844–46