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Landscape With Country Carts
ca. 1784-1785
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Although he sold few of his landscape paintings, Gainsborough considered these works his most important creations. This composition, based on a painting by Pieter Molyn (Dutch, 1595-1661), demonstrates the English artist’s interest in seventeenth-century Dutch landscapes. It also exhibits the looser paint handling and luminosity of Gainsborough’s mature style. The artist gave this painting to his friend Samuel Kilderbee, whose portrait by Gainsborough is also included in the collection.
- Artist
- Thomas Gainsborough
- Title
- Landscape With Country Carts
- Date
- ca. 1784-1785
- Object Type
- Painting
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 50 3/8 x 40 3/8 in. (128 x 102.6 cm)
- Credit Line
- Roscoe and Margaret Oakes Collection
- Accession Number
- 75.2.8