Sujet
Mrs. Sarah Siddons, 1785. Creator: Thomas Gainsborough (British, 1727-1788).
Légende
Mrs. Sarah Siddons, 1785. Although Gainsborough produced about a thousand portraits in oil, the artist typically worked directly on the canvas rather than making preparatory drawings of his sitters. This study, so closely related to the artist?s finished painting of the famous actress, Mrs. Sarah Siddons, is highly unusual. One scholar has hypothesized that because the portrait was not made on commission but conceived for an exhibition in his studio, Gainsborough may have had only a single sitting with the celebrated actress, and knew he would he would have to rely on the drawing as a basis for the finished work.
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art
Notre référence
HRM19F94_445
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
88,6Mo (8,4Mo) / 41,3cm x 53,7cm / 4879 x 6347 (300dpi)