A Sunlit Path through a Wood
Thomas Gainsborough · 1750/59 · Graphite, with brush and gray wash, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper, edge mounted onto grayish-cream wove paper
Public domain
Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
A Sunlit Path through a Wood is a public-domain drawing by Thomas Gainsborough, dated 1750/59. Graphite, with brush and gray wash, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper, edge mounted onto grayish-cream wove paper. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“A Sunlit Path through a Wood” (1750/59) 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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