Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Portrait of Thomas Gainsborough

Gainsborough Dupont

Portrait of Thomas Gainsborough

ca. 1775
6 1/8 x 4 15/16 inches (156 x 124 mm)
Black and white chalks, with white chalk worked wet on blue-green paper.
III, 64

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on verso in graphite in an elaborate script, "A Portrait of Gainsboro / by himself / May 4th [18]43".
Associated names
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography
Bolzoni, Marco S. Thomas Gainsborough : Experiments in Drawings. New York : The Morgan Library & Museum, 2018, p. 80, repr.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, III, 64.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department