Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Hubert-François Gravelot, 1699–1773, French, active in Britain (1733–45)
Title:
The Sporting Lady
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, pen and black ink, gray ink, gouache, and graphite, with squared lines on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 9/16 x 8 7/16 inches (16.7 x 21.4 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
inscribed in graphite, verso; lower left: "Rooker"; inscribed in graphite, verso, lower right: "D33[?]2"; blue/black ink
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B2001.2.868
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
horse (animal) | riding crop | lady | birds | hunting dog | game (hunted animal) | hunting | equestrian | men | pockets (costume components) | grass | feathers | rifle (long gun) | fence | boots | hats | coats
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Noble Exercise - The Sporting Ideal in Eighteenth-Century British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-07-14 - 1982-09-19)
Publications:
Robert Colls, This sporting life : sport and liberty in England, 1760-1960, Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K., 2020, pp. 18, 370, GV706.35 .C65 2020 (LC) YCBA

Stephen Deuchar, Noble exercise : the sporting ideal in eighteenth-century British art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1982, p. 46, no. 57, ND1388 G7 D48+ (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:47260