About the Artwork
The Market Cart
ca. 1787
Thomas Gainsborough
1727-1788
English
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 51 1/4 × 42 1/2 inches (130.2 × 108 cm) Framed: 61 × 53 1/4 × 4 1/4 inches (154.9 × 135.3 × 10.8 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Gift of Elizabeth B. Fisher in memory of Charles T. Fisher, Jr.
74.267
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
April 11, 1797, collection of Mrs. T. Gainsborough sold by (Christie's, London, England), lot 96
purchased by William Neave [Williamson]
1817, collection of Sir Thomas Neave (London, England)
by descent, S. H. M. Neave
June 27, 1885, sold (Christie's, London, England), lot 27 [bought in]
May 15, 1886, sold (Christie's, London, England), lot 85 [bought in]
April 2, 1887, sold (Christie's, London, England), lot 113
purchased, Martin
collection of Lord Michelham
(Howard Young Galleries, New York, New York, USA)
by 1949, collection of Mr. and Mrs. Charles T. Fisher (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
by descent, Mrs. Elizabeth B. Fisher (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1974-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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British Institution, London, 1817, no. 72. (checked ref. not in catalogue AM/ V&A).
Fulcher, G. W. Life of Gainsborough. London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1856, p. 200.
Graves, A. A Century of Loan Exhibitions, vol. 1. London: Algernon Graves, 1915, p. 372.
Graves, A. Art Sales, vol. 1. 1918, p. 130.
Redford, G. Art Sales, vol. 2. 1919, p. 40.
Fifth Loan Exhibition of Old and Modern Masters. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, October 1927, p. 34, cat. 56 [lent by Mr. & Mrs. Charles T.Fisher-entry by W. Heil].
New York World's Fair, Masterpieces of Art. 1939, no. 134, pl. 94.
Davies, M. The British School. National Gallery of Art, London. 1946, no. 80, p. 55.
Masterpieces of Painting from Detroit Private Collections. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1949, no. 9 [as lent by Mr. and Mrs. Charles T. Fisher].
Waterhouse, E. Gainsborough. London: Edward Hulton, 1958, pp. 122, 295, no. 1003.
"Annual Report," Bulletin of the DIA 54, no. 2 (1975): p. 54, (repr.).
Cinco Singlos de Obras Maestras. Museo de Jade. San Jose, Costa Rica, 1978, no. 25,
p. 75, (repr.).
Hayes, J. The Landscape Paintings of Thomas Gainsborough. 1982, vol. 2, p. 568 [as a copy]
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Thomas Gainsborough, The Market Cart, ca. 1787, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Elizabeth B. Fisher in memory of Charles T. Fisher, Jr., 74.267.
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