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.

Wooded Landscape with Cows in a Pool

Thomas Gainsborough
1727-1788

Wooded Landscape with Cows in a Pool

ca. 1780-1785
10 1/4 x 13 1/2 inches (260 x 343 mm)
Black wash, lead white watercolor, red chalk, over black chalk, on laid paper.
III, 63a

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

Inscriptions/Markings
Watermark: Countermark: AMSTERDAM.
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. 79, no. 7, repr.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, III, 63a.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department