Extensive Landscape with Lake and Cottages (An Extensive Landscape…

Extensive Landscape with Lake and Cottages (An Extensive Landscape…
Extensive Landscape with Lake and Cottages (An Extensive Landscape…
Extensive Landscape with Lake and Cottages (An Extensive Landscape…
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
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Artist
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
Title
Extensive Landscape with Lake and Cottages (An Extensive Landscape with Cottages near a Lake)
Date
c.1744-45 (undated)
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Metric: 81.3 x 124.8 cm
Imperial: 32 x 49 1/8 in.
Accession Number
99.4
Wilson Online Reference
P11
Exhibited
London, Cardiff and New Haven, 1982-83 (6)
Provenance
The executors of Captain R.S. de Q. Quincey; purchased 1999 with funds from the state of North Carolina, by exchange and the North Carolina State Art Society (Robert F. Phifer Bequest), in memory of Richard S. Schneiderman, Director of the North Carolina Museum of Art (1986-1993)
Critical commentary
First published by David Solkin in 1982, this unidentified view of a pastoral paradise shows, as Solkin noted, the artist at his most rococo and in the formative stages of his career as a landscapist. The pale pastel tints and rich variations in surface textures are directly comparable with his early essays in landscape, P10 Westminster Bridge under Construction , Tate, London and P12 Caernarvon Castle, Detroit Institute of Arts.
Bibliography
Solkin 1982, pp. 26-27, 148
Condition/Conservation
Dimensions framed: 101.9 x 147 cm (40 1/8 x 57 7/8 in.)