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Mother and Child by the Sea (© Barber Institute of Fine Arts)
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© 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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