Michael Angelo and Emma Clara Peale

Rembrandt Peale

ca. 1826 · Oil on canvas · The American Wing

Peale's studies of French Neoclassical painting during a sojourn in Paris (1808–10) helped him to break free from the British eighteenth-century conventions that he had learned from his portraitist father, Charles Willson Peale. Peale's resplendent palette, along with his ability to render warm flesh tones, manipulate light, and emphasize textures suggests that while in France, he studied not only the works of modern painters, but also paintings by Rubens, Van Dyck, and other Baroque masters. Michael Angelo (1814–1833) and Emma Clara (1816–1839) were the youngest of the artist's nine children.

Artist

Rembrandt Peale

Date

ca. 1826

Medium

Oil on canvas

Culture

American

Department

The American Wing

Credit line

Purchase, Dodge Fund, Dale T. Johnson Fund, and Q, The Overbrook Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. Max N. Berry, Barbara G. Fleischman, Mrs. Daniel Fraad, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Lunder, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Martucci, and Erving and Joyce Wolf Gifts, 2000