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Study for "Country Cousins"
Richard Redgravec. 1847-48
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
This drawing is a study for Richard Redgrave’s oil painting <em>Country Cousins</em>, 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.
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- Title: Study for "Country Cousins"
- Creator: Richard Redgrave (British, 1804-1888)
- Date Created: c. 1847-48
- Physical Dimensions: Sheet: 37.5 x 27 cm (14 3/4 x 10 5/8 in.)
- Provenance: (Thomas Deans and Co. Tallahassee FL), Dr. Paul J. Vignos, Hunting Valley, OH, bequeathed to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2011.127
- Medium: black, red, and white chalk
- Inscriptions: inscribed, in graphite, at upper right: Save 1/1
- Fun Fact: The subject matter of Richard Redgrave's paintings was shaped by his impoverished upbringing, the deaths of his mother and sister, and the burden of responsibility for debt-collecting for his father's precarious manufacturing business.
- Department: Drawings
- Culture: England, 19th century
- Credit Line: Bequest of Dr. Paul J. Vignos, Jr.
- Collection: DR - British
- Accession Number: 2011.127
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