Signed, at left: RP [not visible to naked eye]
Man Reading by Candlelight, between 1805 and 1808
- Rembrandt Peale, American, 1778-1860
Oil on canvas
- Unframed: 55 × 45 inches (139.7 × 114.3 cm)
- 62 1/2 × 53 × 3 1/2 inches (158.8 × 134.6 × 8.9 cm)
Founders Society Purchase, Director's Discretionary Fund
59.187
Department
American Art before 1950
Details
Private collection (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA). dealer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA). 1958, Joe Kindig, Jr., & Son (York, Pennsylvania, USA). 1958-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
The Peale Family and Peale’s Baltimore Museum: 1814-1830. Exh. cat., The Peale Museum. Baltimore, 1965. The Peale Family: Three Generations of American Artists. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1967, pp. 101-102, no. 135 (ill.). Price, V. Treasury of American Art. Waukesha, WI, 1972, p. 33 (ill.).
attributed to Rembrandt Peale, Man Reading by Candlelight, between 1805 and 1808, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Director's Discretionary Fund, 59.187.