A Peasant Girl gathering Faggots in a Wood
Thomas Gainsborough
- Art Funded
- 1978
- Dimensions
- 169 x 123 cm
- Vendor
- Agnew's
One of Gainsborough's so-called 'fancy pictures'.
A late work showing main influence of Murillo. Appealed to the new taste for unsophisticated natural beauty, This piece not exhibited in his lifetime and was described as unfinished.
Provenance
J.W.Steers; the Abdy family; Lord Beaverbrook; Beaverbrook Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick, 1956; sold by the Beaverbrook Foundation, Sotheby's, July 1977.