Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00009233Rocky, Wooded Landscape with a Dell and Weir
About the Artwork
In a sketchy manner, Gainsborough convincingly singled out the various elements comprising this sweeping landscape—meadow, rocks, trees—by only slightly varying colors and brushstrokes. At the same time, however, a great sense of unity prevails. Although the bulk of Gainsborough's artistic output was portraits, he insisted that landscape was his first love.
Provenance
1904: F. Fleischmann (1904), sold to O. Ashscroft 1904: O. Ashscroft, Birmingham, United Kingdom ?-1984: (Colnaghi, London, United Kingdom, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) 1984-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
Year in Review for 1984. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 3-May 5, 1985). British Gallery Reinstallation (June 2020). The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Thomas Gainsborough (British, 1727–1788)
- Date
- c. 1782–1783
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 89.5 x 110 x 8 cm (35 1/4 x 43 5/16 x 3 1/8 in.); Unframed: 70.5 x 91 cm (27 3/4 x 35 13/16 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
- Accession no.
- 1984.59
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