Landscape with Three Donkeys
ArtistAttributed to
Thomas Gainsborough
British, 1727–1788
Date1780
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions25 x 30 in. (63.5 x 76.2 cm)
Frame: 32 3/4 x 37 3/4 in. (83.2 x 95.9 cm)
Frame: 32 3/4 x 37 3/4 in. (83.2 x 95.9 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina and the North Carolina State Art Society (Robert F. Phifer Bequest)
Object number52.9.71
On View
Not on viewPublished ReferencesAW. Armstrong, Gainsborough (London, 1904), 207.
Antiques (October 1952). 262.
W.R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 81, illus. (b-w).
"Picture of the Month," North Carolina Museum of Art Calendar of Art Events 4, no. 1 (September 1960), discussed and illus. (b-w) unnumbered page.
Charles W. Stanford, Masterpieces in the North Carolina Museum of Art (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1966), no. 4, illus. (b-w).
British Paintings to 1900: Catalogue of Paintings, Vol. 2, 2nd ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1969), no. 72, illus. (b-w).
John Hayes, Landscape Paintings of Thomas Gainsborough: A Critical Text and Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 1 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1982), 258, illus.
Exhibition HistoryLondon, England, New Gallery, 1897-98, no. 167.
Chattanooga, TN, George Thomas Hunter Gallery of Art, September 8-30, 1962.
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