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| "The Painter's Two Daughter," 1758; photo taken by Matt at the V&A |
Here's a more official image:
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O17303/the-painters-two-daughters-oil-painting-gainsborough-thomas-ra/
These from the National Gallery, where they ask you not to take photographs:
The Painter's Daughters Chasing a Butterfly (1756):
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/thomas-gainsborough-the-painters-daughters-chasing-a-butterfly
And most exquisitely, heartbreakingly, The Painter's Daughters with a Cat (1760-1):
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/thomas-gainsborough-the-painters-daughters-with-a-cat
That one's unfinished, obviously. Where's the cat? It's more profoundly incomplete than that; where are the children? Where does this indelible and glancing period go?
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