A Sunlit Path through a Wood

Museum record 205851: A Sunlit Path through a Wood by Thomas Gainsborough. A verified entry point for discovery.

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This work comes from the body of landscape sketches that Gainsborough made for his own pleasure, sitting by his wife in the evening. Although they were originally not meant to be sold, these fresh and vigorous drawings—hailed by a friend as “effusions of genius”— comprise more than three-quarters of the artist’s output as a draftsman and are now the most coveted of his works on paper. MyArtTaste includes museum record 205851 as a recognizable discovery anchor, using the institution's official public-doma…