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Gainsborough Dupont
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
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Description
- Gainsborough Dupont
- A wooded landscape with a peasant girl feeding a dog, with a goat, cows and sheep on a distant hillside
- oil on canvas
- 25 by 29 3/4 in.; 63.5 by 75.6 cm.
Provenance
With Leger Galleries, London, by 1948;
Lady Barwick, London;
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 16 June 2005, lot 289.
Lady Barwick, London;
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 16 June 2005, lot 289.
Literature
J. Hayes, The Landscape Paintings of Thomas Gainsborough, Ithaca 1982, vol. 1, pp. 190, 194, cat. no. 12, reproduced p. 209, fig. 238.
Condition
The canvas has an old relining and is flat and stable. The painting is quite dirty overall, and the paint layer underneath the yellowed varnish is thick, with many areas of impasto, particularly in the whites. No inpainting is visible to the naked eye, though under UV light there are a few small areas which fluoresce, mostly in the darks on the left side of the composition. The work has been preserved beautifully and should brighten up considerably with a clean and fresh varnish. Offered in a carved giltwood frame.
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Catalogue Note
A preparatory drawing of the figure of the girl feeding the dog is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (inv. no. 48.1106:verso, black and white chalk on blue paper, 34.9 by 18.4 cm., see Hayes, under Literature., p. 209, fig. 237).