Study for "Country Cousins"

About the Artwork

This drawing is a study for Richard Redgrave’s oil painting Country Cousins, a modern life subject in which class conflict is played out in a domestic interior. In the painting, a rural family calls upon their wealthy relations and is met with sneering condescension. The youngest figure in the composition, a country boy in profile with downcast eyes, is the subject of this acutely observed drawing, exquisitely rendered in black and red chalk with white highlights.

Inscriptions

inscribed, in graphite, at upper right: Save 1/1

Exhibition history

British Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art . The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-May 26, 2013).

Quick Overview

Artist: Richard Redgrave (British, 1804–1888)
Date: c. 1847–48
Medium: black, red, and white chalk
Dimensions: Sheet: 37.5 x 27 cm (14 3/4 x 10 5/8 in.)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawing
Department: Drawings
Credit line: Bequest of Dr. Paul J. Vignos Jr.
Accession no.: 2011.127

Provenance

?-?: (Thomas Deans and Co. Tallahassee FL) ?-2011: Dr. Paul J. Vignos, Hunting Valley, OH, bequeathed to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH 2011-: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.