
Not on display
- Artist
- George Stubbs 1724–1806
- Medium
- Oil paint on wood
- Dimensions
- Support: 597 × 762 mm
frame: 770 × 940 × 85 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1933
- Reference
- N04696
Summary
The painting shows a grey stallion in a landscape. The picture would have been commissioned by a patron as a portrait of his horse, although the names of the animal and its owner are now unknown. Stubbs's earlier works usually depicted horses with a groom, jockey or owner, whereas his paintings of the 1780s and 1790s often showed a single animal in a landscape.
Further reading:
Judy Egerton, George Stubbs 1724-1806, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1984, reprinted 1996, pp.20, 103
Terry Riggs
January 1998
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