Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.26
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
landscape | animal art | woodcocks (birds) | birds
Currently On View:
Not on view
Publications:
Christies's sale catalogue : Important British and Old Master Pictures Collected by Paul Mellon which will be sold at Christie's Great Rooms... : 17 November 1989, Christie's, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, Friday, 17 November 1989, p.65, no.26, N5220 M45 I47 1989 (LC) (YCBA)Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 18-19, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)Judy Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867 : A Catalogue : The Paul Mellon Collection, , Tate Publishing, London, 1978, p.2, no.2, ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
Francis Barlow probably made sketches from life that he later worked up in oil on pieces of canvas back in the studio. Given the size of this canvas and the repetition of the woodcocks in similar poses in other pictures, this may have been one of Barlow’s working canvases, kept on hand and used as the model for finished paintings. Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016