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Study for Landscape, Destruction of Niobe's Children
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Study for Landscape, Destruction of Niobe's Children
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Victoria & Albert Museum, London
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Ascribed to Wilson
Title
Study for Landscape, Destruction of Niobe's Children
Date
c.1760-65 (undated)
Medium
Oil and bodycolour on paper
Dimensions
413 x 515 mm
Dimensions
16 1/4 x 20 1/4 in.
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Victoria & Albert Museum, London. To license image, click here
Accession Number
P.15-1915
Wilson Online Reference
D369
Description
Exhibited
London, Cardiff and New Haven, 1982-83 (86)
London, Cardiff and New Haven, 1982-83 (86)
Provenance
Perhaps Paul Sandby sale, Christie's 4 May 1811 (80 - A drawing, the effect of a storm: it was from this sketch Mr. Wilson took the idea of painting his celebrated picture of the Niobe); bt 'C' 13 guineas; [...] given to the Museum by Henry J. Pfungst, FSA., 1915
Perhaps Paul Sandby sale, Christie's 4 May 1811 (80 - A drawing, the effect of a storm: it was from this sketch Mr. Wilson took the idea of painting his celebrated picture of the Niobe); bt 'C' 13 guineas; [...] given to the Museum by Henry J. Pfungst, FSA., 1915
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P90B <i>The Destruction of Niobe's Children</i>, ex-National Gallery; destroyed 1944
P90B
The Destruction of Niobe's Children
, ex-National Gallery; destroyed 1944
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Critical commentary
Perhaps a preliminary study for P90B <i>The Destruction of Niobe's Children</i>, ex-National Gallery; destroyed 1944. Solkin notes, however, that Wilson is not known to have produced any comparable large sketches in colour for the landscape backgrounds of his subject-pictures, or any works in this medium. There are thus considerable grounds for doubt as to the authorship of the present work, whose freedom of handling might support the function of a preliminary study and whose differences of detail from P90B argue against its being a copy.
Perhaps a preliminary study for P90B
The Destruction of Niobe's Children
, ex-National Gallery; destroyed 1944. Solkin notes, however, that Wilson is not known to have produced any comparable large sketches in colour for the landscape backgrounds of his subject-pictures, or any works in this medium. There are thus considerable grounds for doubt as to the authorship of the present work, whose freedom of handling might support the function of a preliminary study and whose differences of detail from P90B argue against its being a copy.
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Bibliography
Booth Notes Doc. 5, p. 3 [?]; Whitley 1800-1820, p. 152; Borenius 1944, p. 212; WGC, p. 163; M. Hardie, <i>Watercolour Paintings in Britain</i>, 1966, vol. 1, p. 74 & pl. 45; Solkin 1982, p. 200
Booth Notes Doc. 5, p. 3 [?]; Whitley 1800-1820, p. 152; Borenius 1944, p. 212; WGC, p. 163; M. Hardie,
Watercolour Paintings in Britain
, 1966, vol. 1, p. 74 & pl. 45; Solkin 1982, p. 200
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22/12/2016
22/12/2016
Work of Art
Paintings
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782),
The Destruction of Niobe's Children
, Ex-National Gallery; destroyed 1944
Exhibitions
London, Tate Gallery, Cardiff, National Museum of Wales, and New Haven, Conn., Yale Center for British Art, 3 November 1982 - 19 June 1983
Biographies
Documents
David Solkin,
Richard Wilson: The Landscape of Reaction
Anon [Tancred Borenius], Richard Wilson's 'Niobe'
William Thomas Whitley,
Art in England 1800-1820
Benjamin Booth, Unpublished Notes, Document 5: List of Wilson's Works with Owners
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