Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788)
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Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788)

A wooded Landscape with Cattle and Sheep at a Watering Place, and rustic lovers

細節
Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788)
A wooded Landscape with Cattle and Sheep at a Watering Place, and rustic lovers
grey and grey-black washes and black and white chalk
10 5/8 x 14 1/8 in. (27 x 35.7 cm.)
來源
George Nassau; Evans, 25 March 1824, 2nd day, lot 351 (with two others in one frame) bought by Lord Gower, and thence by descent.
出版
J. Hayes, The Drawings of Thomas Gainsborough, London, 1970, vol. I, p. 231, no. 528.

拍品專文

'The treatment of wash and the scallops outlining the foliage are identical with J. Hayes, op.cit., no. 527'. Numbers 527, 528, and 529 were at one time mounted in one frame.
George Nassau (1756-1823), the previous owner of the drawing, was a bibliophile who belonged to a prominent county family in Suffolk, and whose father had sat to Gainsborough in the 1750s. In 1820 it was noted by Henry Reveley, Notices illustrative of the Drawings and Sketches of some of the most Distinguished Masters in all Principal Schools of Design, London, 1820, p. 266, that Nassau had twenty-eight examples of Gainsborough's work (J. Hayes, op.cit, vol. II, pl. 393), including the fine set of landscapes with deer in one frame that was bought by Lord Gower.