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Title:
Moonlight: The Bathers
Object name(s):
Picture; French
Brief description:
Two naked children appear to be bathing in a pool beneath a dark tree set against a cloudy, moonlit sky. A third child, who is clothed, sits on the bank near a patch of red that may be a fire.It is likely that this picture was painted by a late nineteenth-century imitator of Theodore Rousseau and not by Rousseau himself. Some features of the painting -- for example, the multi-directional brushwork of the sky and the delicate brushwork of the trees in background on the left -- do recall landscapes painted by Rousseau. However, his landscapes are usually deserted. When he does include people, they never have the prominence of the three bathers we see here.Unlike the lively confident brushwork of the background, the children themselves are crudely painted, and lines and dabs of thick dark paint have been used to add detail to their faces and clothing.
Collection:
National Gallery
Accession date:
1917-01-01
Date - earliest / single:
1917
Date - latest:
1917
Acquisition source:
Sir Hugh Percy Lane
Associated concept:
leisure
Credit line:
Sir Hugh Lane Bequest, 1917, The National Gallery, London. In partnership with Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin.
Current location:
Not on display
Current reproduction location:
2/634/875/706/mid_N-3269-00-000008.jpg
Dimension:
Height
Dimension measured part:
Overall
Dimension measurement unit:
cm
Dimension value:
52.10
Dimension:
Width
Dimension measured part:
Overall
Dimension measurement unit:
cm
Dimension value:
67.30
Form:
None
Material:
oil on canvas
Material:
oil
Material:
canvas
Object name:
Picture; French
Object production date:
possibly 1860s-1880s
Date - earliest / single:
1860
Date - latest:
1889
Object production date:
Date - period:
1850-74
Date - period:
1875-99
Object production person:
Théodore Rousseau
Person's birth date:
1812
Person's death date:
1867
Object production place:
France
Other number:
NG3269
Other number type:
object number
Other number:
0GOF-0001-0000-0000
Other number type:
PID
Other number:
NG3269
Other number type:
display number
Other number:
000-04NL-0000
Other number type:
PID (NG alternative)
Other number:
ng33269
Other number type:
sort number
Owner:
Sir Hugh Percy Lane
Responsible department/section:
Main Collection
Right note:
To encourage the use and reuse of the National Gallery's collection data, they are released under the following dedications and licences: Structured data (as opposed to narrative texts) are released under a Creative Commons Zero dedication (CC0): https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Descriptions, notes and all other narrative text content are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 licence (CC BY-NC-ND): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
Style:
river scenes
Style:
night scenes
Style:
Barbizon
User's reference:
National Gallery Catalogues: The Nineteenth Century French Paintings
Reference details:
431-3
Reference note:
Latest catalogue
Reference type:
reference
User's reference:
National Gallery Catalogues: French School: Early 19th Century, Impressionists, Post-Impressionists etc.
Reference details:
127
Reference note:
Previous catalogues
Reference type:
reference
User's reference:
National Gallery Catalogues: French School
Reference details:
204
Reference note:
Previous catalogues
Reference type:
reference
User's reference:
The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue
Reference details:
590
Reference note:
Key bibliography
Reference type:
reference
User's reference:
Illustrated Catalogue with Biographical and Critical Notes: Municipal Gallery of Modern Art
Reference details:
32
Reference note:
Key bibliography
Reference type:
reference
User's reference:
Hugh Lane : founder of a gallery of modern art for Ireland /edited by Barbara Dawson ; assisted by Logan Sisley, Jessica O'Donnell, and Michael Dempsey.
Reference details:
Ill. (p. 167)
Reference type:
reference

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Use licence for this record: CC BY

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