© Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Mother and Child by the Sea
Artist: Johan Christian Dahl (1788 - 1857)
Location: Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Date: 1840
Materials: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 21 x 31cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £33,500 (Total: £297,203)
Vendor: Faber & Day
Review number: 5047 (2002)
Provenance:
Carl Wedel, Norway; by descent to Baroness Wedel-Jarlsberg, Norway; private collection, Stavanger, Norway; by descent to A Andersen, Oslo; Day and Faber, London.
Description:
A romantic painting which depicts a woman and child awaiting the return of a fishing boat from a moonlit coast. According to an explanation by the artist himself, the boat contains a 'close relation', almost certainly the child's father as Dahl's father was also a fisherman.
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