Details 1272 - It's got me stumped. And 1273.

Details 1272 was a detail that I could not identify. If some readers of this blog managed to identify it, you deserve to be congratulated and to win!

The result published today states that the picture is by Samuel Prout and is titled "Dover". No-one managed to send in a correct answer. This is another example of Jenny Gilbert using a detail that followers of the competition could not find. I have mentioned before that in all the years of Tom Lubbock's stewardship, there was, I believe, only one occasion when the detail was unidentified.

Once again, the painting is in the United States, where many of Jenny Gilbert's selections are to be found. It is stated to be in The Morgan Library, New York.

I can find no full size version on the internet. There is no record of it in the search facility of the Morgan Library that I can find. Here is the one published in the Independent on Sunday:

Finally, I could not find 1273, either. This was a drawing, and drawings are notoriously difficult to find. We shall see next week.

Detail 1273

08.11.15 There was some improvement on last week's "No winner". This week there was a single winner who guessed the artist correctly. However, although Ms Gilbert states that the aquatint was the inspiration for a set of drawings and poems (in the form of an early comic) titled "The Tour of Dr Syntax in search of the Picturesque, A Poem", she does not give the title of the aquatint from which the detail was taken. Nor does she state where it is to be found.

09.11.15

The artist was Thomas Rowlandson.

14.11.15

Details 1269

Though I recognised the style of the detail for 1269, I spent a long time identifying it.

However, eventually I found the original, which is in the Swindon Art Gallery and Museum:

Details 1267 and 1268

The Problem of Identification

The detail for Competition 1267 was in one sense, easy to identify. It was very much a painting by Turner. However, the difficulty lay in finding the painting and its title. It took me a great deal of searching before I located it. Once again, as often with Jenny Gilbert's selections, it was from a Museum in the United States (The Morgan).

Original detail

Wreck on the Goodwin Sands

Details 1268

Details 1268 was another detail whose identification eluded me for a long time. As the "answer" has not yet been published, I remain in a little doubt. The problem that I encountered here was partly one of attribution. I felt confident that it was by Frans Hals or a follower of Frans Hals, but pinning down the detail to a specific painting was quite tough. The one I eventually decided was unfortunately only to be found in black and white. There were others in colour, but seemed to me to be from slightly different images. The variations in titles are also unhelpful. Most similar pictures are not by Hals himself. 

Original detail

There is a similar detail in a painting in the Louvre. Child with a Soap Bubble.

Tete d'enfant - Abbeville - musée Boucher de Perthes

Head of a Boy facing left with a Flute

   

We shall see.

Jenny Gilbert hedges her bet somewhat and does not state if the picture is by Hals, or a follower, just that versions are contested. However, the detail comes from the Abbeville - musée Boucher de Perthes painting.