The Sunlight
The Cleveland Museum of Art · Gift of the Frances W. Ingalls Trust
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The Sunlight

1890s
Ture Nikolaus Cederström (Swedish, 1843–1924) visual detail
ArtistTure Nikolaus Cederström (Swedish, 1843–1924)
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Provenance

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Frances W. Ingalls, Cleveland. Given to the CMA in 1996.

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Frances W. Ingalls, Cleveland. Given to the CMA in 1996.

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Stories from Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021). Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art (12/19/04-4/3/05); Milwaukee, WI: Milwaukee Art Museum (5/19-9/5/05); Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art (10/16/05-1/8/06): "The Arts & Crafts Movement in Europe and America: Design for the Modern World"

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Sourced Overview Evidence

Monastic life was a popular subject among painters working in Munich, where Ture Nikolaus Cederström spent much of his career. The monk seen here is immersed in thought, looking pensively through a window and using his finger to hold his place in a book. Such paintings were popular for the access they provided to private life within monasteries, which were closed to the public. The monk’s casual pose and absorption in the view provide an approachable vision of religion, showing the figure’s longing for the outside world.

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