Family Group in Landscape

Gainsborough Dupont English, 1754-1797
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About the Artwork

Family Group in Landscape

late 18th century

Gainsborough Dupont

1754-1797

English

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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)

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European Painting

Bequest of Mr. and Mrs. James S. Whitcomb

72.838

Public Domain

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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, 1927, p. 34, cat. 57.

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

Exhibition of English Art of the 18th and 19th Centuries. Exh. manuscript, DIA at Alger House. Detroit, 1938, [no published catalogue, hand typed ms].

Hayes, J. The Landscape Paintings of Thomas Gainsborough, vol. 1. Ithaca, 1982, 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.

Family Group in Landscape
Family Group in Landscape