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Creator:
Sebastian Pether, 1790–1844
Title:
River Scene
Former Title(s):
Moonlight River Scene
Date:
1840
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
12 1/4 × 16 1/4 inches (31.1 × 41.3 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Signed and dated in green paint, lower left: "S Pether 1840"

Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.502
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Link to Frame:
B1981.25.502FR
Subject Terms:
boat | castle | chimneys (architectural elements) | clouds | cottage | evening | fence | fishermen (people) | fishing | house | landscape | men | moon | moonlight | night | path | river | riverbank | rocks (landforms) | rowboat | trees | walking | water | windows
Access:
Not on view
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:986
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Sebastian Pether’s father, Abraham Pether, was also an accomplished painter, and he was known as “Moonlight Pether” for his frequent nocturnal landscapes. The younger Pether continued to romanticize moonlight and fire in night scenes, where color harmony is as instrumental as subject. He would frequently place castles in his imaginative landscapes. Here, Pether paints an intimate glimpse of life by the riverside, humanizing the castle by focusing on life outside of it.

Gallery label for Art in Focus: The British Castle - A Symbol in Stone (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-04-07 - 2017-08-06)

Out to Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2022-03-11 - 2022-03-28) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Art in Focus : The British Castle - A Symbol in Stone (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-04-07 - 2017-08-06) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]

Advertisement and Notices, Norfolk Chronicle, vol. 77, no. 3997, Norfolk, UK, 13 Mar 1847, Reference to possible but unconfirmed sale., Available online (British Library Newspapers)

Classified Ad 13 -- No Title, The Manchester Guardian, Manchester, UK, 09 Oct 1844, Reference to possible but unconfirmed sale., Available online (ProQuest News & Newspapers)

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 178-179, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]

The British Castle : A Symbol in Stone, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2017, pp.29-30, cat. 25, V2722 (YCBA) [YCBA]


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