Schloss Milkel in Moonlight

ca. 1833–35

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 807

The Baroque manor house at Milkel, near Dresden, is depicted from its rear garden in an atmosphere of deep calm. While nature’s fecundity is illuminated by the moon, two windows glow softly, revealing a human presence—the sign of someone awake late at night. Carus wrote that "supreme reality is manifest both inwardly, through the rational mind, and outwardly, through nature," a duality represented in this painting by lamplight and moonlight.

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Title: Schloss Milkel in Moonlight
Artist: Carl Gustav Carus (German, Leipzig 1789–1869 Dresden)
Date: ca. 1833–35
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 11 1/4 × 8 1/2 in. (28.5 × 21.5 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Purchase, Fern and George Wachter Gift, 2018
Object Number: 2018.749
Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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