Wooded Landscape with Village Scene
Thomas Gainsborough · early 1770s (not later than 1772) · Varnished gouache, over black and red chalks, on cream laid paper, laid down on canvas, stretched on a wooden stretcher and varnished again
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Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
Wooded Landscape with Village Scene is a public-domain drawing by Thomas Gainsborough, dated early 1770s (not later than 1772). Varnished gouache, over black and red chalks, on cream laid paper, laid down on canvas, stretched on a wooden stretcher and varnished again. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“Wooded Landscape with Village Scene” (early 1770s (not later than 1772)) is either a portrait of a fashionable sitter or a landscape Gainsborough assembled from outdoor studies.
About the artist
Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788) was an English painter of portraits and landscapes. The sitters are fashionable. The landscapes were often invented from studies rather than painted as one view.
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