Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Francis Barlow, 1622–1704, British
Title:
Woodcock at Dusk
Date:
ca. 1686
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
17 1/4 x 21 1/2 inches (43.8 x 54.6 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.26
Gallery Label:
Francis Barlow probably made sketches from life that he later worked up in oil on pieces of canvas back in the studio. Given the size of this canvas and the repetition of the woodcocks in similar poses in other pictures, this may have been one of Barlow’s working canvases, kept on hand and used as the model for finished paintings. Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016