Mother and Child by the Sea

Johan Christian Dahl (1788 - 1857)

Barber Institute of Fine Arts

1840

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.

• Medium: oil on canvas
• Dimensions: 21 x 31cm
• Art Fund Grant: £33500 ( Total: £297,203)
• ArtFunded in: 2002
• Vendor: Faber & Day

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.

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