Thomas Gainsborough, R.A. (1727-1788)

THE PROPERTY OF A NOBLEMAN

细节

Thomas Gainsborough, R.A. (1727-1788)
A Shepherd and his Dog in an extensive River Landscape, a ruined building beyond
watercolour and oil paint, varnished
8 5/8 x 12 1/8in. (219 x 308mm.)

来源

Skrine (? A.D. Skrine of Warleigh Manor, descendant of William Skrine, patron of Gainsborough's friend the Rev. Richard Graves)
With Colnaghi, from whom purchased by Sam Sayer 1957
Anon Sale; Sotheby's, 30 Nov. 1960, lot 12A
With Colnaghi, from whom purchased by the present owner

出版

J. Hayes, The Drawings of Thomas Gainsborough, London, 1970, p. 192, no. 357

拍品专文

The treatment of this drawing is particularly close to that of the Landscape with Cart, Figures and Ruins, in the Pierpont Morgan Library (Hayes, op.cit., no.356). Both are typical of a group of works in which Gainsborough sought to achieve the weight of oil paintings (see Hayes, op.cit., pp.23, 43, 130). In 1772 he exhibited ten such landscapes, 'in imitation of oil painting', at the Royal Academy, nos.98 and 99