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A Sunlit Path through a Wood

A work made of graphite, with brush and gray wash, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper, edge mounted onto grayish-cream wove paper.
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  • A work made of graphite, with brush and gray wash, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper, edge mounted onto grayish-cream wove paper.

Date:

1750/59

Artist:

Thomas Gainsborough
English, 1727-1788

About this artwork

This work comes from the body of landscape sketches that Gainsborough made for his own pleasure, sitting by his wife in the evening. Although they were originally not meant to be sold, these fresh and vigorous drawings—hailed by a friend as “effusions of genius”— comprise more than three-quarters of the artist’s output as a draftsman and are now the most coveted of his works on paper.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Thomas Gainsborough

Title

A Sunlit Path through a Wood

Place

England (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1745–1764

Medium

Graphite, with brush and gray wash, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper, edge mounted onto grayish-cream wove paper

Dimensions

15.8 × 19.1 cm (6 1/4 × 7 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Regenstein Endowment Fund

Reference Number

2010.524

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