Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Francis Barlow, 1622–1704, British
Title:
Ducks and Other Birds about a Stream in an Italianate Landscape
Date:
1671
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
48 × 64 3/8 inches (121.9 × 163.5 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated in paint, lower right on broken post: "F. Barlow | 1671"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.27
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
birds | ducks | swallows | animal art | herons | lapwings | kingfisher | landscape | stream | village | swimming | buildings | river | mountains | trees
Associated Places:
Italy | Europe
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Penn's England (Pennsylvania State University Museum of Art, 1982-09-05 - )

British Painting and the European Continent (Haus der Kunst Munich, 1979-11-20 - 1980-01-27)

Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20)
Publications:
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 18-19, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)

Judy Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867 : A Catalogue : The Paul Mellon Collection, , Tate Publishing, London, 1978, p.2, no.3, ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Nathan Flis, "The Drawings of Francis Barlow: From Apprenticeship to 'Aesop's Fables,' 1648-66", Master Drawings, v. 49, Winter 2011, p. 488, fig. 14, NC1 M37 2011 (YCBA)

John Gage, Zwei Jahrhunderte englische Malerei : britische Kunst und Europa 1680 bis 1880 : [Ausstellung] Haus der Kunst Mèunchen, 21. November 1979 bis 27. Januar 1980: [Katalog], , Ausstellungsleitung Haus der Kunst München, Munich, 1979, pp. 66, 68, no. 7, fig. 7, ND466 Z85 (YCBA)

Sir Oliver Millar, Notes on British Art 2, Apollo, January 1965, p. 3-4 (Suppl), fig. 3, N1 +A54 85 Oversize (YCBA)

Olga K. Preisner, The England of William Penn 1644-1718: An Exhibition Organized in Recognition of the Tercentenary of William Penn's First Landing in America..., Pennsylvania State University Museum of Art, University Park, Pennsylvania, pp. 20, 21, no. 2, N6766 P74 (YCBA)

Painting in England 1700-1850 from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, The Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition 1964-65., , Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK, 1964, p. 85 (v.1), no. 303, pl. 10, N5220.M45 R69 1964 (YCBA)

Yale University Art Gallery, Painting in England, 1700-1850, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon : [exhibition at] Yale University Art Gallery, April 15-June 20, 1965, , vol. 1, W. Clowes and sons, New Haven, 1965, p. 2 (v.1), no. 6, pl. 10, ND466 Y35 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:540