Maciej Maslowski, artist's son, art historian noticed (1957), that the Moonrise painting was one of the few "nocturne pictures" where the moon was a "principal hero".

[6][7] The special place of the Moonrise painting in the development of Masłowski's work has been emphasized by Tadeusz Dobrowolski, an art historian and professor of the Jagiellonian University, in the following words (transl.

[12] According to the Maciej Masłowski, the painter's son and an art historian, despite the fact that the painting was created in realistic style – it had been inspired by Polish romantic poetry – by Słowacki's Beniowski poem.

[13] Though the demonstrated here painting has been created in Poland, it has inspired the American lyric poet Sara Teasdale (1884–1933), who has written the following poem:[14][15]

It will not hurt me when I am old, ⁠A running tide where moonlight burned ⁠ Will not sting me like silver snakes; The years will make me sad and cold, ⁠ It is the happy heart that breaks.