A Rest by the Way (Open Landscape with Figures, Donkey and Horses)
Thomas Gainsborough
ca. 1780
Medium
Black chalk, brush and brown wash
Dimensions
sheet: 9 1/8 x 10 7/8 in. (23.2 x 27.7 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Alexandrine Sinsheimer, 1958
Accession Number
59.23.43
Tags
DonkeysHorsesLandscapesTrees
About the Artist
Thomas Gainsborough · 1727–1788
Thomas Gainsborough was born on 14 May 1727 in Sudbury, Suffolk, the youngest of nine children to wool dealer John Gainsborough and his wife Mary. Demonstrating prodigious talent from childhood, he sketched landscapes in the local woods and fields, fostering his lifelong passion for the genre. At age thirteen, he moved to London, where he trained under the French engraver and illustrator Hubert-Fr...