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A Herdsman with Three Cows by an Upland Pool

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Date

mid 1780s

Artist

Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788)

Collection

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Image Link

http://www.clevelandart.org/art/2006.156

Description

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 watercolor, 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.
Medium: watercolor, ink and oil paint heightened with white chalk ("Bristol lead white") on paper and varnished overall
Dimensions: Sheet: 21.9 x 31.3 cm (8 5/8 x 12 5/16 in.)
Credit Line: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Accesion Number: 2006.156

Image Licence

CC0 1.0

Image Credit

Image courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art

Location

England

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Tags

Cows
Mammals
Rivers
Hills
Trees

Category

Landscapes & Seascapes

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