Mother and Child by the Sea
Johan Christian Dahl
- Art Funded
- 2002
- Dimensions
- 21 x 31 cm
- Vendor
- Faber & Day
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.
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.