Study for "Country Cousins"
Richard Redgrave · c. 1847–48 · Cleveland Museum of Art
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This drawing is a study for Richard Redgrave’s oil painting Country Cousins, a modern life subject in which class conflict is played out in a domestic interior. In the painting, a rural family calls upon their wealthy relations and is met with sneering condescension. The youngest figure in the composition, a country boy in profile with downcast eyes, is the subject of this acutely observed drawing, exquisitely rendered in black and red chalk with white highlights. The subject matter of Richard Redgrave's paintings was shaped by his impoverished upbringing, the deaths of his mother and sister, and the burden of responsibility for debt-collecting for his father's precarious manufacturing business.
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Details
- Maker
- Richard Redgrave (British, 1804–1888)
- Date
- c. 1847–48
- Medium
- black, red, and white chalk
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 37.5 x 27 cm (14 3/4 x 10 5/8 in.)
- Place of origin
- England
- Held by
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · Not on view
- Credit line
- Bequest of Dr. Paul J. Vignos Jr.
Image: Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0
