FJK 050

Gainsborough Thomas (British, Sudbury 1727–1788 London)

Horsemen on a Wooded Path

ca. 1785
10 25/64 × 12 29/32 in. (264 × 328 mm)

Medium
Brown ink wash on preliminary drawing in black chalk on paper
Original paper support by the artist

Stamped and signed bottom left: T. Gainsborough

Certificate

Certificates from H. G. Belsey, Gainsborough’s House Curator, dated August 14 and September 12, 1994

Origin

Private Collection
Sale, Sotheby’s, London, November 10, 1963, no. 19
Agnew’s Gallery, London
Basil Samuel Collection
Sale, Christie’s, London, April 12, 1994, no. 15
Jan Krugier Collection, Monaco, JK 5280
Jan Krugier Foundation

Exhibitions

London, Agnew’s Gallery, Watercolour and Drawings Exhibition, 1964, no. 47.

Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, The Timeless Eye. Master Drawings from the Jan and Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski Collection, 1999, p. 148, no. 67, color ill. p. 149.

Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Miradas sin Tiempo. Dibujos, Pinturas y Esculturas de la Coleccion Jan y Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2000, p. 182, no. 75, color ill. p. 183.