George Inness, one of the most influential American landscape painters of the nineteenth century, was drawn throughout his career to the soft, mysterious effects of moonlight, and "The Moon at Night" reflects this fascination with nocturnal atmosphere rendered in his characteristic hazy, tonal brushwork. The painting exemplifies the moody, poetic quality of Inness's mature style, shaped by his Swedenborgian religious belief that the natural world, even in darkness, expressed unseen spiritual truth.
Printed edge to edge on a soft, durable woven area rug with a comfortable, non-slip feel.
