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European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection

Night (Two Stags Battling by Moonlight)

Pendant to "Morning", Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1986-26-283

Made in England, Europe

By 1853

Sir Edwin Landseer, English, 1802 - 1873

Oil on canvas
56 x 103 inches (142.2 x 261.6 cm)

* Gallery 294, European Art 1500-1850, second floor

1986-26-282

The Henry P. McIlhenny Collection in memory of Frances P. McIlhenny, 1986

Label

After a severe nervous breakdown in 1840, Edwin Landseer was determined to avoid the pressures of continuous commissions and paint entirely for himself. Allowing his imagination free range, he repeatedly depicted the heroic stag, noble but inevitably doomed, a symbol of the tragic forces of nature. Night records a nocturnal battle between two stags.

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