A wooded landscape with a horse and cart on a country path, a cottage beyond

細節

Thomas Gainsborough, R.A. (1727-1788)
A wooded landscape with a horse and cart on a country path, a cottage beyond
with artist's stamp 'T. Gainsborough' (lower left, on the mount and lower right)
pencil, black chalk, stump and brown wash, in a gold, embossed arabesque border
8 7/8 x 12 1/8 in. (22.7 x 31 cm.)
in a Louis XIII gilded oak carved frame

來源

Dr Monro, his sale; Christie's, London, 26 June 1833, lot number untraced.

展覽

J. Hayes, The Diary of Thomas Gainsborough, London, 1970, p. 281, no. 755, as untraced.

刻印

J. Laporte, 1 March 1803 (as in the collection Dr. Thomas Monro).

注意事項

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拍品專文

Hayes compares the present drawing to no. 754 in his catalogue and relates the treatment of the foliage and the horses and cart to the drawing in the collection of Mrs. W.W. Spooner (see Hayes, op.cit., p. 281). The present drawing belongs to a distinct group of landscape drawings executed in a very loose technique of brown or grey wash, that Gainsborough probably made as presentation drawings (see J. Hayes and L. Stainton, Gainsborough Drawings, Washington, 1983, p. 166, no. 75). It has been suggested that he was setting out to emulate artists such as Marco Ricci and to appeal to collectors of Old Master drawings. The border of embossed arabesque decoration and the artist's gold-stamped signature also supports the theory that the drawings were intended for sale. The black underdrawing may have been produced by transference, off-set from another sheet. For a discussion of this technique see L. Binyon, British Drawings in the British Museum, London, 1900, vol. II, pl. 176.