A small boat rows beneath the sheer cliffs of the North Cape, the northern edge of Europe, as the moon breaks through storm clouds. Balke had sailed along Norway's Arctic coast as a young man and returned to this view throughout his career.
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The North Cape by Moonlight
Dark Academia · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Peder Balke, 1848. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access (public domain).