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    Study for Landscape, Destruction of Niobe's Children

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    Study for Landscape, Destruction of Niobe's Children
    Study for Landscape, Destruction of Niobe's Children
    Study for Landscape, Destruction of Niobe's Children
    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
    Metric: 413 x 515 mm
    Imperial: 16 1/4 x 20 1/4 in.
    Collection
    Victoria & Albert Museum, London. To license image, click here
    Accession Number
    P.15-1915
    Wilson Online Reference
    D369
    Exhibited
    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
    Signature/inscription
    Unsigned; no inscription
    Related Paintings
    P90B The Destruction of Niobe's Children, ex-National Gallery; destroyed 1944
    Critical commentary
    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.
    Bibliography
    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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    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

    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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