- 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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