About the Artwork
Family Group in Landscape
late 18th century
Gainsborough Dupont
1754-1797
English
Unknown
Oil on canvas
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)
Paintings
European Painting
Bequest of Mr. and Mrs. James S. Whitcomb
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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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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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.
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