Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Benjamin Marshall, 1768–1835, British
Title:
Foxhunting Scene
Date:
1808
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
40 x 50 inches (101.6 x 127 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated, lower left: "B. Marshall P[?] | 1808"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.759
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
reins | horses (animals) | trees | sportsmen | hunters | dry | gesture | men | hunting | sporting art | landscape | genre subject | saddles | riding boots | breeches (trousers) | redingote (overcoat) | collar | fence | frock coats | hats, top
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The Noble Horse (Tokyo Fuji Art Museum, 1998-04-04 - 1998-05-28)
Publications:
Robert Colls, This sporting life : sport and liberty in England, 1760-1960, Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K., 2020, pp. 22, 370, GV706.35 .C65 2020 (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. 154-155, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)

Judy Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867 : A Catalogue : The Paul Mellon Collection, , Tate Publishing, London, 1978, pp. 200-201, cat. 212, ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Lionel Lambourne, The noble horse, man and horse in Western art history 4 April-26 May, 1998, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum , Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc., Tokyo, 1998, pp. 67, 147-48, no. 27, pl. 27, N7668 H6 N6213 1998 (YCBA)

Mario Praz, Conversation Pieces : A Survey of the Informal Group Portrait in Europe and America, , Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, University Park, 1971, pp. 182-183, no. 145, ND1304 +P713 Oversize (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1209