About the Artwork
Man Reading by Candlelight
between 1805 and 1808
Rembrandt Peale
1778-1860
American
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 55 × 45 inches (139.7 × 114.3 cm) Framed: 62 1/2 × 53 × 3 1/2 inches (158.8 × 134.6 × 8.9 cm)
Paintings
American Art before 1950
Founders Society Purchase, Director's Discretionary Fund
59.187
Public Domain
Markings
Signed, at left: RP [not visible to naked eye]
Provenance
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)
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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.).
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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.
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