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Study for "Country Cousins"
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About this work
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.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineStudy for "Country Cousins", c. 1847–48. Richard Redgrave (British, 1804–1888). Black, red, and white chalk; sheet: 37.5 x 27 cm (14 3/4 x 10 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Dr. Paul J. Vignos Jr., 2011.127
