Art, literature & history
The River Elbe in Moonlight
1833
- Dating
- Exact year
- Medium
- Brush and gray wash, white bodycolour, over graphite and black chalk
- Dimensions
- sheet: 6 x 7 15/16 in. (15.2 x 20.2 cm)
- Collection no.
- 2003.157
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Johan Christian Dahl. The River Elbe in Moonlight. Johan Christian Dahl; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Mary Oenslager Fund, 2003. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
About this artwork
The River Elbe in Moonlight — Johan Christian Dahl. 1833.
Medium: Brush and gray wash, white bodycolour, over graphite and black chalk. Dimensions: sheet: 6 x 7 15/16 in. (15.2 x 20.2 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Mary Oenslager Fund, 2003.
This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.