Download image:
Thomas Gainsborough
1727-1788
Landscape with Cottage, and Cattle
ca. 1755
Graphite with smudging, on laid paper.
8 5/8 x 11 inches (219 x 279 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
III, 53
Download verso image:
Provenance:
John Laporte, 1761-1839; Stanley; Sir J. C. Robinson; his sale, London, Christie's, 21 April 1902, lot 22; Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), London and Florence; from whom purchased through Galerie Alexandre Imbert, Rome, in 1909 by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York (no mark; see Lugt 1509); his son, J. P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), New York.
Associated names:
Laporte, John, 1761-1839, former owner.
Stanley, former owner.
Robinson, J. C. (John Charles), Sir, 1824-1913, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography:
Bolzoni, Marco S. Thomas Gainsborough : Experiments in Drawings. New York : The Morgan Library & Museum, 2018, p. 78, no. 3, repr.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, III, 53.
Catalog link:
Artist page:
School:
Century:
Classification:
Department: