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- Title:
The Salmon Leap, Leixlip
- Former Title(s):
The Salmon Leap at Leixlip with Nymphs Bathing
Girls Bathing by a Waterfall
View of the Salmon-leap at Leixlip in Ireland ]
- Date:
- 1783
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 26 5/8 x 25 1/2 inches (67.6 x 64.8 cm), Frame: 37 1/4 × 35 1/2 × 4 inches (94.6 × 90.2 × 10.2 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated in black paint, lower right: "FWheatley pinx | 1783"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.122
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1977.14.122FR
- Subject Terms:
- arch | costume | dog (animal) | eroticism | genre subject | hunter | landscape | leisure | mythology | nude | nymphs | prince | river | rocks (landforms) | waterfall | women
- Associated Places:
- Ireland | Kildare | Leinster | Leixlip | Liffey | United Kingdom
- Associated People:
- Actaeon
Diana - Access:
- Not on view
Note: To make an appointment to see this work, please contact the Paintings and Sculpture department at ycba.paintings@yale.edu. Please visit the Paintings and Sculpture collections page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:459
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