Johan Christian Dahl
Mother and Child by the Sea
183015.9 x 20.6 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated indistinctly lower left: [?J] Dahl 1830.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gift of Eugene V. Thaw, 2007
Provenance
Jørgen Hansen Koch, Copenhagen, by 14 December 1830; bought from the artist with another painting, probably "Autumn Landscape near Dresden" [private collection, Copenhagen; Bang 1987, no. 605], as pendants, for 20 species each, as a gift for his wife
his wife, Mrs. Jørgen Hansen Koch, Copenhagen, from 1830
N. Sontum, Bergen, in 1937
Ingrid Sontum
Håkon Mehren, Oslo, until about 1981; sold to Arnoldi-Livie
with Galerie Arnoldi-Livie, Munich, about 1981; sold to Stebbins
Theodore Ellis Stebbins Jr., Boston, from about 1981
sale, Sotheby's, New York, 12 October 1994, nr. 336, as "Figures on a Beach by Moonlight"
Eugene Victor Thaw, Santa Fe, by 2001–7
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Other works by Johan Christian Clausen Dahl
An Eruption of Vesuvius
1824
1824
Two Men before a Waterfall at Sunset
1823
1823
Eruption of Vesuvius
1823
1823
Dresden in moonlight
1843
1843
Cloud study
1832
1832