The Shepherd Boy
The Shepherd Boy
Artist
Thomas Gainsborough
(British, 1727-1788)
Place of OriginEngland
Dateabout 1757-1759
Dimensions(Oval) H: 32 1/2 in. (82.5 cm); W: 25 1/2 in. (64.8 cm)
MediumOil on canvas.
ClassificationPaintings
Credit LineGift of Arthur J. Secor
Object number
1933.21
On View
Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 27
Engraved by George Sanders for Henry Graves' Folio of Gainsborough's Works, published in 1871.
Godwin, Blake-More, Catalogue of European Paintings, Toledo, 1939, p. 290, repr. p.291.
Armstrong, W., Life of Gainsborough, London, n.d., p. 205.
Waterhouse, E.K., Gainsborough, London, 1958, p. 35, no. 836, pl. 34.
Riefstahl, R., "What is Conservation?", Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, VII, Autumn, 1965, p. 57, repr.
Crombie, Theodore, "London Galleries: England's Taste for Europe," Apollo, no. 78, Aug. 1968, repr. p. 135.
Glendinning, Sally, Thomas Gainsborough, Artist of England, Champaign, IL, 1969, repr. (col.) p. 75.
Hayes, J., The Drawings of Thomas Gainsborough, London, 1970, p. 27, in no. 865.
Toledo Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, European Paintings, Toledo, 1976, pp. 60-61, pl. 314.
Morse, John D., Old Master Paintings in North America New York, 1979, p. 136.
Andrews, Peter, "A View of Toledo," Connoisseur, vol. 212, no. 849, Nov. 1982, repr. (col.) p. 109.
Hayes, John, The Landscape Paintings of Thomas Gainsborough, London, 1982, no. 69, pp. 63, 76, 406, 407, repr. p. 406.
Hayes, John and Lindsay Stainton, Gainsborough Drawings, Washington D.C., 1983, p. 56 (not in exhib.).
Steward, James Christen, The New Child: British Art and the Origins of Modern Childhood, 1730-1830, Berkeley, 1995, p. 184, fig. 80, p. 185.
Belsey, Hugh, Thomas Gainsborough: A Country Life, Munich, Prestel, 2002, pp. 75-76, fig. 53, (col.), p. 77.
Exhibition HistoryLondon, British Institution, 1861, no. 214.London, Grosvenor Gallery, A Century of British Art, 1737-1837, no. 218 (by F.G. Stephens).
Paris, Exposition universelle, 1900, Royal Pavilion, no. 48.
London, Royal Academy, Exhibition of Old Masters, 1903, no. 122.
Milwaukee Art Institute, Three Centuries of British Painting, 1946.
London, Kenwood House, The French Taste in English Painting, 1968, no. 41.
Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery, Maryland Heritage, 1976, no. 4, repr. p. 14.
Ferrara, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Thomas Gainsborough, 1998, no. 36, p. 134, repr. (col.).
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