Wooded Landscape with Village Scene

Provenance

Sir Michael Ernest Sadler (1861-1943), Oxford by 1939 [Woodall 1939]. Sold by the Fine Art Society to J. Leslie Wright (1862–1954), 1948 [Hayes 1971]; bequeathed to the Birmingham City Art Gallery with life-interest to his daughter, Mrs. Dorian A. Williamson, 1953 [Hayes 1971]; Mrs. Dorian A. Williamson, until at least 1971 [Hayes 1971]. Sold, Sotheby’s, London, Nov. 24, 1977, lot 112, to Thomas Agnew and Sons, London; sold to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA. Jan. 1978 [invoice]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2012.

Wooded Landscape with Village Scene

Thomas Gainsborough

early 1770s (not later than 1772)

Accession Number

186081

Medium

Varnished gouache, over black and red chalks, on cream laid paper, laid down on canvas, stretched on a wooden stretcher and varnished again

Dimensions

43.5 × 55.9 cm (17 3/16 × 22 1/16 in.)

Classification

prints and drawing

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection