With these two images of moonlit nights Carus is telling a story with painterly means. Beneath the night sky with its windswept clouds stretches an intricate, labyrinthine landscape of roofs. A Gothic church towers in the background, a small attic room glows in the foreground. There a bookcase, a desk with papers, and a lamp with a green shade can be seen: someone is awake, writing and reading, through this stormy German night.