Landscape with Cattle Crossing a Bridge
Thomas Gainsborough
(British, 1727–1788)
Dateca. 1785
MediumOil over black chalk with white chalk highlights on white laid paper
Dimensions8 5/8 x 12 5/16 in. (21.9 x 31.3 cm)
Credit LineHenry Clay Frick Bequest
Accession number1913.3.08
CommentaryThis picturesque, hilly landscape is reminiscent of northwest England's Lake District, a popular tourist destination to which Gainsborough first traveled in 1783. Applying layers of oil paint and varnish, he transforms the sheet into a small painting.
Sir Thomas Lawrence (?). John Postle Heseltine, London (Lugt 1507). Knoedler. Frick, 1913.
Source: The Frick Collection: Drawings, Prints & Later Acquisitions. Volume IX. New York: The Frick Collection, 2003.
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Thomas Gainsborough
ca. 1760
Thomas Gainsborough
ca. 1760
Style of Jean-Honoré Fragonard
18th century
Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)
1655−58
