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Study for 'Diana and Actaeon' Study for 'Diana and Actaeon'

Study for 'Diana and Actaeon'

Thomas Gainsborough

Art Funded
1996
Dimensions
27.4 x 36.4 cm
Art Fund grant
£31,000
Vendor
Henry Wemyss
This is taken from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' which describes the hunter Actaeon inadvertently happening upon the goddess Diana bathing with her nymphs.

Enraged that a mortal has seen her naked, Diana throws water at Actaeon, transforming him into a stag, which is subsequently devoured by his hunting hounds. This is the earliest of three surviving studies for the work in the Royal Collection.

Provenance

Sir Richard Wallace; Sir John Murray Scott; Lady sackville; Nigel Nicholson; Marchioness of Angsley; Hon. Rupert Paget; Sothebys.

Black & white chalk with grey & grey-black washes & gouache on buff paper

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Art we’ve helped buy at Gainsborough's House

Wooded Landscape with Herdsmen seated on a Bank near a Pool
 Acquired 1991
Wooded Landscape with Buildings, Lake and a Rowing Boat
 Acquired 1994
Study of a Woodman
 Acquired 1999
Study for Upland Landscape
 Acquired 2001
Study for the Portrait of Ann Ford
 Acquired 2001
Study for 'Diana and Actaeon'
 Acquired 1996
Seeing - La Vue
 Acquired 2000
Portraits of John and Thomas Gainsborough
 Acquired 1985
Portrait of Lambe Barry
 Acquired 2001
Portrait of Harriet, Viscountess Tracy
 Acquired 1992
Figures resting in a woodland landscape
 Acquired 2014
Fallen Tree
 Acquired 2003
Children in a Landscape
 Acquired 1988
A Wooded Landscape with Horsemen
 Acquired 1991
A Wooded Landscape with Cattle by a Pool and Rustics outside a Cottage
 Acquired 1988
A Peasant Family going to Market
 Acquired 1992
A Pathway Through a Wooded Landscape with a Farm in the Distance
 Acquired 1994
'Descent from the Cross' after Sir Peter Paul Rubens
 Acquired 1999


Exhibitions at Gainsborough's House

Thomas Gainsborough, Wooded Landscape with Old Peasant and Donkeys outside a Barn, Ploughshare and Distant Church, c1755

Early Gainsborough: From the Obscurity of a Country Town

Opening Soon
Nicole Farhi, Francis Bacon

Nicole Farhi: Heads and Hands

Image credit

1 . Study for 'Diana and Actaeon'

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