Preliminary study for "Repose"
Framed: 17 1/2 × 20 × 1 1/4 inches (44.45 × 50.8 × 3.18 cm)
County Borough of Ipswich Bicentenary Memorial Exhibition of Thomas Gainsborough, R.A.: Illustrating the Various Periods of his Work, also the Work of his Antecedents and Contemporaries and his Influence on the Art of his Own and Later Times, Ipswich Museum, Ipswich, UK, 1927, no. 143, as Landscape with cattle.
Great Master Drawings of Seven Centuries; A Benefit Exhibition of Columbia University for the Scholarship Fund of the Department of Fine Arts and Archaeology, Knoedler and Company, New York, October 13-November 7, 1959, no. 58, as Landscape.
Looking at Historic Lands, Urban and Rural, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 15-June 10, 2012, as Preliminary study for “Repose.”
John Heywood Hawkins (1802-1877), London and Bignor Park, Sussex;
Inherited by his son, Christopher Henry Thomas Hawkins (1820-1903), London;
Purchased at Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C.H.T. Hawkins, Esq., Deceased; late of 10 Portland Place, W. sale, Christie’s, Manson London, March 29, 1904, lot 194, as Group of Cattle, by Colnaghi, London;
With Colnaghi, London;
With Arthur Kay (1860-1939), Edinburgh, by 1930;
Purchased at Drawings by Thomas Gainsborough, R.A. and Other Artists: The Property of Arthur Kay, Esq., H.R.S.A. of Edinburgh sale, Christie’s, Manson and Woods, London, May 23, 1930, lot 29, as Rest: a sleeping peasant, with cattle and horses, near some trees, by Thomas Agnew, and Sons, London, 1930-1932;
Given by Thomas Agnew and Sons to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1932.
Catalogue of the Collection of Engravings after J.M.W. Turner, R.A.; Etchings by Sir F. Seymour Haden; Books by the Old Masters formed by C.H.T. Hawkins, Esq., Deceased; late of 10 Portland Place, W. (London: Christie’s, Manson of Woods, March 29, 1904), 16, as Group of Cattle.
County Borough of Ipswich Bicentenary Memorial Exhibition of Thomas Gainsborough, R.A.: Illustrating the Various Periods of his Work, also the Work of his Antecedents and Contemporaries and his Influence on the Art of his Own and Later Times, exh. cat. (Ipswich, UK: W.S. Cowell, 1927), 73, as Landscape with cattle.
Catalogue of Drawings by Thomas Gainsborough, R.A. and Other Artists: The Property of Arthur Kay, Esq., H.R.S.A. of Edinburgh (London: Christie’s, Manson and Woods, May 23, 1930), 6, as Rest: a sleeping peasant, with cattle and horses, near some trees.
Mary Woodall, Gainsborough’s Landscape Drawings (London: Faber and Faber, 1939), (repro.).
Ellis F. Waterhouse, Gainsborough (London: Hulton, 1958), (repro.).
Great Master Drawings of Seven Centuries; A Benefit Exhibition of Columbia University for the Scholarship Fund of the Department of Fine Arts and Archaeology, exh. cat. (New York: Knoedler, 1959), 67, (repro.), as Landscape.
Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 130, (repro.), as Preliminary Study for “Repose.”
John Hayes, The Drawings of Thomas Gainsborough (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1971), 1: no. 402, pp. 40, 44, 99, 103, 201-02, 3: unpaginated, (repro.), as Open Landscape with Herdsmen, Cows and Horses.
Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 1, Art of the Occident, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 186, (repro.), as Preliminary Study for “Repose.”
Gainsborough: 1727-1788, exh. cat. (London: Tate Gallery, 1980), 168.
John Hayes, The Landscape Paintings of Thomas Gainsborough: A Critical Text and Catalogué Raisonné, vol 2, Catalogue Raisonné (London: Sotheby Publications, 1982), 470-1, (repro.).
Roger Ward and Mark S. Weil, Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, exh. cat. (St. Louis, MO: Washington University Gallery of Art, 1989), unpaginated.
Gene A. Mittler, Art in Focus: Aesthetics, Criticism, History, Studio, 4th edition (New York: Glencoe McGraw-Hill, 2000), 55, (repro.), as Preliminary Study for “Repose.”
