Thomas Gainsborough, R.A. (Sudbury, Suffolk 1727-1788 London)

A wooded landscape with a peasant, a horse and cattle

细节

Thomas Gainsborough, R.A. (Sudbury, Suffolk 1727-1788 London)
A wooded landscape with a peasant, a horse and cattle
oil on canvas
25½ x 30 1/8 in. (64.8 x 76.5 cm.)

来源

(Probably) Francis Chaplin, M.P. (d. 1838).
Sir Richard Sutton, 2nd Bt. (1799-1855), and by descent until sold by the Trustees of the Late Sir R.V. Sutton, Bt.; Christie's, London, 15 April 1994, lot 39 (£28,000 to the present owner).

出版

E.K. Waterhouse, Gainsborough, London, 1958, no. 850.
J. Hayes, The Landscape Painting of Thomas Gainsborough, London, 1982, I, pp. 82 and 84; II, p. 400, no. 63.

展览

Nottingham, University Art Gallery, Landscape by Thomas Gainsborough, A Critical Text and Catalogue Raisonné, November 1962, no. 10.
Birmingham, City Museum and Art Gallery, on loan, before 1994.

荣誉呈献

Alexis Ashot

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拍品专文

The composition of this painting, which is dated by Waterhouse to c. 1755-7, is echoed in a drawing made two or three years later (see J. Hayes, The Drawings of Thomas Gainsborough, London and New Haven, 1970, II, no. 233, pl. 70). The influence of the Dutch landscape painters of the 17th century, notably Wouwerman and Wijnants, is evident in this early work. Gainsborough had already used the motif of the peasant on the bank in his painting of Landguard Fort (see Hayes, op. cit., 1982, no. 37).