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Cottage Children (The Wood Gatherers)
Curator’s note

Cottage Children (The Wood Gatherers)

A work by Thomas Gainsborough, the great English master of portrait and landscape. Country children gathering wood are rendered in a soft, poetic mood — his gift for blending figures gracefully into nature.

Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Date
1787
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
58 1/8 x 47 3/8 in. (147.6 x 120.3 cm)
On view
Gallery 628
Source:The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Open Access)CC0View source
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