- Title:
A Mountain Chieftain's Funeral
- Former Title(s):
The Burial of Alaric
- Date:
- ca. 1848
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 14 × 21 3/4 inches (35.6 × 55.2 cm), Frame: 19 3/8 × 27 × 2 3/8 inches (49.2 × 68.6 × 6 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed in yellow paint, lower left: "F DANBY"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.196
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.196FR
- Subject Terms:
- burial | casket | cliff | clouds | coffin | dark | flames | funeral | genre subject | moon | mountain | night | nighttime | people | procession | rocks (landforms) | torches (lighting devices) | walking
- 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:706
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Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 78-79, N590.2 A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Painting in England 1700-1850 from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, The Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition 1964-65., , Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK, 1964, p. 48 (v.1), no. 176, ND466 R68 1964/65 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Yale University Art Gallery, Painting in England, 1700-1850, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon : [exhibition at] Yale University Art Gallery, April 15-June 20, 1965, , vol. 1, W. Clowes and sons, New Haven, 1965, p. 18 (v.1), no. 61, ND466 Y35 (YCBA) [YCBA]