Watercolor with brown and red ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 1/4 x 10 1/8 inches (21 x 25.7 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated in brown ink, lower left: "David Wilkie | ft 1839"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.4299
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
women | family | men | interior | infant | children | mother | father | food | shawl | genre subject | tablecloth | dog (animal) | dinner | eating | prayer
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17)Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (The State Hermitage Museum, 2007-10-23 - 2008-01-13)Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2007-07-11 - 2007-09-30)David Wilkie : Genre Painter (Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2002-09-11 - 2002-12-01)
Publications:
Catalogue of the art treasures of the United Kingdom : collected at Manchester in 1857, Bradbury and Evans, London, 1857, p. 184, no. 185, N5056 .M35 M25 1857 (YCBA)Nicholas Tromans, David Wilkie: A Painter of Everyday Life, London: Dulwich Picture Gallery, p. 145, no. 63, NJ18. W665 776 2002 (LC) OVERSIZE (YCBA)Yale Center for British Art, Great British watercolors : from the Paul Mellon Collection, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2007, pp. 140-142, no. 61, ND1928 .Y35 2007 (LC)+ Oversize (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
In 1836 David Wilkie was commissioned by Glendy Burke of New Orleans to produce an oil painting depicting a family saying grace. Wilkie was a painstaking planner, working through every detail of his paintings with careful preparatory drawings. Often he would use watercolor to block in the forms of objects and to define the spatial relationships between them. By using his pigments in an extremely saturated state, the brilliant blues and reds gave Wilkie a visual shorthand for the chromatic richness that was so admired in his final canvases. Gallery label for Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17)