Nocturne (painting)
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Nocturne painting is a term coined by James Abbott McNeill Whistler to describe a painting style that depicts scenes evocative of the night or subjects as they appear in a veil of light, in twilight, or in the absence of direct light. In a broader usage, the term has come to refer to any painting of a night scene,
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Night scenes by artists of other movements
Other artists who also created nocturne scenes are:
- Jacob van Ruisdael (1628–1682), Landscape with Church (circa 1660)]
- Jacob van Ruisdael, Landscape (circa 1665)
- Augustus Leopold Egg (1816–1863), Past and Present Number Three (circa 1853)]
- John LaFarge (1835-1920), The Lady of Shalott (1862)
- Edgar Degas (1834–1917), Interior (nicknamed The Rape) (1868–69), Philadelphia Museum of Art
- Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), Starry Night Over the Rhone (1888)
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See also
- Artists who have used the term for a series of their works
- Night in paintings (Eastern art)
- Tonalism
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