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

Signed, at left: RP [not visible to naked eye]

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.