Sujet
A Herdsman with Three Cows by an Upland Pool, mid 1780s. Creator: Thomas Gainsborough (British, 1727-1788).
Légende
A Herdsman with Three Cows by an Upland Pool, mid 1780s. Although he was one of the most celebrated society portraitists of his day, landscape painting was Gainsborough?s love and lifelong pleasure. Here, delicate layers of watercolour, ink, oil paint, and chalk result in a jewel-like work on paper. The composition combines the rural scene of a herdsman and three cows with an imagined, majestic mountain view, mingling the pastoral with the sublime. The sheet was among a group of 14 landscape drawings that Gainsborough selected as a gift for a close friend.
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art
Notre référence
HRM19F67_488
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
41,2Mo (4,1Mo) / 38,3cm x 26,9cm / 4528 x 3182 (300dpi)