A Herdsman with Three Cows by an Upland Pool
mid-1780s
- Medium
- watercolor, ink and oil paint heightened with white chalk ("Bristol lead white")
- Dimensions
- 21.9 × 31.3 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-1102127
Although he was one of the most celebrated society portraitists of his day, landscape painting was Thomas 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.
Provenance
Wade Fund, 2006.156
Registry history
- mid-1780s — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — drawings
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