A Woodman Seated on a Bundle of Faggots

Provenance

Guy Bellingham Smith [Hayes 1970]. Henry J. Pfungst; sold, Christie's, June 15, 1917, Pfungst sale, lot 44, to Sir George Donaldson [Hayes 1970]. Henry Schniewind, Jr., by June 1934 [Siple 1934]; sold, Sotheby's, May 25, 1938, Schniewind sale, lot 141, to Colnaghi [Hayes 1970]; to J. Leslie Wright [Hayes 1970]; by descent to his daughter, Mrs. Cecil Keith, by 1955-at least 1970 [Grigson 1955; Hayes 1970]. Leger Galleries, London, from 1988 [Leger Galleries 1992]; sold to the Art Institute, 1993.

A Woodman Seated on a Bundle of Faggots

Thomas Gainsborough

1787

Accession Number

122046

Medium

Black chalk with stumping, heightened with touches of white gouache and traces of white chalk, on buff laid paper

Dimensions

48.5 × 29.6 cm (19 1/8 × 11 11/16 in.)

Classification

chalk

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

The Regenstein Collection