Herdsman and Cattle

1770–80

Medium	brown chalk, watercolor, with touches of oil paint on buff paper, varnished
Dimensions	8 7/8 x 12 3/16 in. (22.5 x 31 cm)
Object Number	1955.1971
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Thomas Gainsborough, Herdsman and Cattle, 1770–80, brown chalk, watercolor, with touches of oil paint on buff paper, varnished. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1971

Select Bibliography

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty-one: Drawings of the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: 1965. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. The Georgian Era. Exhibition catalogue. Williasmtown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1973. Brooke, David S. Master Drawings: Robert Sterling Clark as a Collector. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1995. John Hayes.. Catalogue Raisonné of Gainsborough's Drawings.. London: Zwemmer.. 1971.. Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964.

Provenance

Richard Ford, London; William Esdaile, London (L. 2617; see inscription);* J. Heywood Hawkins, London (according to sales catalogue Pfungst collection); Henry J. Pfungst, London (sale London, Christie's, June 15, 1917, no. 6); Colnaghi, London (bought by Robert Sterling Clark, 1918). *"L." refers to F. Lugt, Les Marques de collections de dessins et d'estampes, Amsterdam, 1921 and Supplément, The Hague, 1956.