Family Group in Landscape

late 18th century

Gainsborough Dupont English, 1754-1797

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Title Family Group in Landscape

Artwork Date late 18th century

Artist Gainsborough Dupont

Life Dates 1754-1797

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. English

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Overall: 36 × 28 inches (91.4 × 71.1 cm) Framed: 35 3/4 × 38 7/8 × 3 3/8 inches (90.8 × 98.7 × 8.6 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Bequest of Mr. and Mrs. James S. Whitcomb

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 72.838

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Provenance

Collection George J. Gould (New York, New York, USA)

Collection Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

by descent to Anna Scripps Whitcomb

by descent to Mrs. James S. Whitcomb

1972, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Fifth Loan Exhibition of Old and Modern Masters. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, Oct. 1927, p. 34, cat. 57 (lent by Mr. & Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb-entry by W. Heil).

Heil, W. "The Edgar B. Whitcomb Collection in Detroit," Art in America, vol. 16, no. 2, 1928, p. 57.

Detroit, DIA (at Alger House), "Exhibition of English Art of the 18th and 19th Centuries", Nov. 6-18, 1938 (no published catalogue--hand typed ms.--lent by Mr. & Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb).

Hayes, J. The Landscape Paintings of Thomas Gainsborough. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1982, vol. 1, p. 192 no. 2a, (repr.) p. 198 no. 222a.

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Gainsborough Dupont, Family Group in Landscape, late 18th century, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Mr. and Mrs. James S. Whitcomb, 72.838.