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Wooded Landscape with Mounted Peasants
Thomas Gainsborough1772
Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
Indianapolis, United States
Details
- Title: Wooded Landscape with Mounted Peasants
- Creator Lifespan: 1727 - 1788
- Creator Nationality: British
- Creator Gender: Male
- Date Created: 1772
- Type: paintings
- Rights: Gift of Mrs. Nicolas H. Noyes
- External Link: http://www.imamuseum.org/mercury/load-artwork/15919
- Medium: ink, lead white, and gouache on paper mounted on canvas
- wall label: Gainsborough's imaginative and experimental exploration of landscape culminated in 1772 when he created this large, crayon-like drawing "in imitation of oil painting." In defiance of conventional distinctions between drawing and painting, Gainsborough developed an entirely new technique. He glued six sheets of paper together, drew on them with India ink and lead white, fixed the drawing with skim milk, mounted it on canvas, colored it with gouache, and then varnished it. I'm Sick of Portraits, and wish very much to take my Viol da Gamba and walk off to some sweet Village, where I can paint Landskips and enjoy the fag End of Life in quietness and ease. -Thomas Gainsborough, 1772
- measurements: 39 1/2 x 50 3/8 in.
- Artist: Gainsborough, Thomas
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