Mountain Landscape with Bridge

Provenance

Mrs. Thomas Gainsborough; (sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 10-11 April 1797, 2nd day, no. 69);[1] Sir John Fleming Leicester [1762-1827], Bt., later 1st baron de Tabley [1762-1827], Tabley House, Cheshire. Lady Lindsay;[2] purchased by (Asher Wertheimer, London). Sir Edgar Vincent, Bt., later 1st viscount D'Abernon [1857-1941], Esher and Stoke D'Abernon, Surrey, by 1912; purchased 1929 by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris);;[3] purchased 26 April 1937 by The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1937 to NGA. [1] The description in the catalogue is printed in M. G. Speilmann, "A Note on Gainsborough and Gainsborough Dupont," _The Walpole Society_ 5 (1917), 97. [2] Possibly Jeanne, Countess of Lindsay [d. 1897], of Kilconquhar House, Fife [Scotland], and Queen's Gate, London, who was married to John Trottner, 10th earl of Lindsay. [3] Duveen Brothers Records, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, box 244, reel 99, folder 21.

Mountain Landscape with Bridge

Gainsborough, Thomas

c. 1783/1784

Accession Number

1937.1.107

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 113 x 133.4 cm (44 1/2 x 52 1/2 in.) | framed: 146.7 x 167.6 cm (57 3/4 x 66 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Andrew W. Mellon Collection