Art Institute of Chicago
A Sunlit Path through a Wood
Thomas GainsboroughLinkedCulture matchlcp-47311e301e0c
- Date
- 1750/59
- Medium
- Graphite, with brush and gray wash, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper, edge mounted onto grayish-cream wove paper
- Culture
- England
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 205851
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
This work comes from the body of landscape sketches that Gainsborough made for his own pleasure, sitting by his wife in the evening. Although they were originally not meant to be sold, these fresh and vigorous drawings—hailed by a friend as “effusions of genius”— comprise more than three-quarters of the artist’s output as a draftsman and are now the most coveted of his works on paper.
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- Credit line
- Regenstein Endowment Fund
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- Object type
- AAT300033973
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