Nocturne in the Parc Royal, Brussels | William Degouve de Nuncques | 1897 18th Century This stark and unsettling painting

This stark and unsettling painting records the brutal lynching of Dutch statesmen Johan and Cornelis de Witt during the political upheaval of 1672

powerful image

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art New York

The blue-hued palette and night time setting underscore a mood of tension and uncertainty

but he was the foremost painter of them for the remainder of the 19th century

Nocturne in the Parc Royal, Brussels | William Degouve de Nuncques | 1897 18th Century This stark and unsettling paintingIn "Nocturne in the Parc Royal, Brussels" (1897), William Degouve de Nuncques transforms a familiar urban park into a hushed, dreamlike vision of night. Bathed in cool blue and green tones, the moonlit avenues and evenly spaced trees recede into a quiet, almost unreal depth, where glowing lamps and pale paths seem to float in the darkness. Typical of the artists Symbolist sensibility, the painting evokes a mood of stillness and gentle unease, turning