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)
Paintings
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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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.
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