Study for "Country Cousins"
Richard Redgrave (British, 1804–1888)
c. 1847–48
Medium
black, red, and white chalk
Dimensions
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Classification
Drawing
Department
Drawings
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Bequest of Dr. Paul J. Vignos Jr.
Accession Number
2011.127
Tags
male
About this artwork
This drawing is a study for Richard Redgrave’s oil painting Country Cousins, a modern life subject in which class conflict is played out in a domestic interior. In the painting, a rural family calls upon their wealthy relations and is met with sneering condescension. The youngest figure in the composition, a country boy in profile with downcast eyes, is the subject of this acutely observed drawing, exquisitely rendered in black and red chalk with white highlights.