Laborers Loading a Brick Cart
George Stubbs, English, 1724 - 1806
Geography:
Made in Great Britain, Europe
Date:
1767Medium:
Oil on canvasDimensions:
24 x 42 inches (61 x 106.7 cm)Curatorial Department:
European Painting
M1928-1-40Credit Line:
The John Howard McFadden Collection, 1928
Made in Great Britain, Europe
Date:
1767Medium:
Oil on canvasDimensions:
24 x 42 inches (61 x 106.7 cm)Curatorial Department:
European Painting
* Gallery 279, European Art 1500-1850, second floor
Accession Number:M1928-1-40Credit Line:
The John Howard McFadden Collection, 1928
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cart [x] dog [x] harness [x] horse [x] landscape [x] village [x]English aristocrat George Byng, fourth Viscount Torrington, was said to have commissioned a painting of this subject because the sight of working men reminded him of Dutch genre paintings. The laborers posed with a little cart drawn by Lord Torrington's favorite horse, the first he ever rode, who seems to be the real subject of the painting.
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