Mother and Child by the Sea
$63.00
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- 380g/m² cotton canvas — certified museum quality
- Solid wood stretcher bar with 0.75” gallery wrap
- HD Giclée print — colour-true to the original
- Ready to hang — hanging hardware included
Mother and Child by the Sea, painted in 1830 by the Norwegian Romantic painter Johan Christian Dahl, is a small yet profoundly moving meditation on longing, loss, and the sea's quiet power. Dahl identified the two figures gazing out from the shore as the wife and child of a fisherman aboard the approaching boat — a modest genre scene that nonetheless carries the full emotional weight of anticipation and reunion.
The painting emerged from a period of deep personal sorrow: Dahl, himself the son of a fisherman, had lost two of his own children in the year before completing this work, and his yearning for his native Norway while living in Germany infuses the composition with quiet melancholy. The luminous, overcast sky and restless sea — rendered with Dahl's characteristic naturalism and Romantic sensibility — reflect the influence of his close friend Caspar David Friedrich, while grounding the scene's emotion in closely observed atmospheric truth.
This intimate oil on canvas, now held in the permanent collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, is presented here as a museum-quality stretched canvas reproduction. Printed on premium matte canvas and hand-wrapped around a 0.75-inch gallery wrap frame, it brings the tender, wind-swept poetry of Dahl's Romanticism into your space.
| Artist | Johan Christian Dahl |
| Year | 1830 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 6 1/4 x 8 1/8 in. (15.9 x 20.6 cm) |
| Collection | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
| Movement | Romanticism |
