The Trout Stream (also known as The Home of the Trout and Trout Stream Near Dingman’s Ferry)

This work, one of Weber’s largest canvases, was exhibited at the World’s Columbian Exhibition in Chicago in 1893, where it received an honorable mention. The painting also appeared in the Exhibition of Fine Art at the Cotton States and International Exposition: Atlanta in 1895. Weber’s intricate forest interior depicts a stream in northeastern Pennsylvania which likely feeds into the Delaware River, and counts as one of the artist’s finest works.

Weber’s father, Paul (1823 – 1916), whose work is also on view in this gallery, was a distinguished landscape painter who came from Germany to the United States in the middle of the nineteenth century. The family settled in Germantown, a neighborhood in northwest Philadelphia. Following in his father’s footsteps, Carl received his artistic training in Germany in the 1860s and 70s. The artist established a reputation for rural views of eastern and western Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New England. Carl's early work was influenced by the nineteenth -century Romantic Movement.  At the age of thirty, he opened his own studio in Philadelphia, and demonstrated his profound admiration of nature by focusing exclusively on landscapes in the German Romantic tradition. He exhibited regularly at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia and the National Academy of Design in New York.