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Painting
Sleeping Leopard
Signed and dated in brown paint, lower right: "Geo Stubbs | [...] 1777"
500303557
Yale Center for British Art
http://britishart.yale.edu
B2001.2.209
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Not on view
Yale Center for British Art
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4 1/4 x 6 5/8 inches (10.8 x 16.8 cm)
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7 1/4 × 9 1/2 × 1 3/4 inches (18.4 × 24.1 × 4.4 cm)
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George Stubbs, 1724–1806, British
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George Stubbs
George Stubs
Stubbs, George, 1724-1806
Stubbs George, 1724–1806
George Stubbs, 1724–1806
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Enamel on Wedgwood biscuit earthenware
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Wedgwood ware
Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11)
757
300054766
exhibition
Connections
Yale Center for British Art
Yale Center for British Art
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British Art Center
BAC
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Yale Center for British Art
1977
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2011-09-11
Yale Center for British Art
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Yale Center for British Art
New Haven
7014210
New Haven
An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)
248
300054766
exhibition
An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy
Yale Center for British Art
Yale Center for British Art
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British Art Center
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2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29
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Yale Center for British Art
New Haven
7014210
New Haven
An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Royal Academy of Arts, 2007-10-20 - 2008-01-27)
248
300054766
exhibition
An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy
Yale Center for British Art
Royal Academy of Arts
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Royal Academy of Arts
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Royal Academy of Arts
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Royal Academy of Arts
Piccadilly
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Piccadilly
Paul Mellon - A Cambridge Tribute (The Fitzwilliam Museum, 2007-06-12 - 2007-09-23)
554
300054766
exhibition
Paul Mellon - A Cambridge Tribute
Yale Center for British Art
The Fitzwilliam Museum
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Fitzwilliam Museum
The Fitzwilliam Museum
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
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The Paul Mellon Bequest : Treasures of a Lifetime (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-02-17 - 2001-04-29)
82
https://britishart.yale.edu/node/692
300054766
exhibition
The Paul Mellon Bequest : Treasures of a Lifetime
Yale Center for British Art
Yale Center for British Art
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BAC
Yale Center for British Art
British Art Center
1977
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2001-02-17 - 2001-04-29
2001-02-17
2001-04-29
Yale Center for British Art
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Yale Center for British Art
New Haven
7014210
New Haven
300435424
When Paul Mellon died in February 1999, he left the Center nearly three hundred paintings, sixty-four mostly small-scale sculptures, large numbers of drawings and prints, and a magnificent group of rare books. These were the works he chose to keep for his own pleasure until the end of his life, and they represent the more personal side of his great British collection. To the vast array of his gifts to the Center since its opening in 1977, they brought a firmer sense of his own life, character, and interests. — —
Mellon’s passion for English country life was rooted in childhood experiences: his aversion to the grim, moneymaking world of his unresponsive father, his happy early visits to England, homeland of his mother. For him England was truly a green and pleasant land. Taken together, the works in the bequest present an idyllic vision of the place, green and fresh, a paradise of hunting, shooting, fishing, and horse racing. — —
This exhibition included about 150 paintings from the bequest, with a complementary selection of sculptures, drawings, and rare books. Among the highlights were eleven paintings by George Stubbs, eighteen oil sketches by John Constable, a small painting on copper by William Blake, and nine paintings, largely of equine subjects, by the early twentieth-century painter Robert Bevan. — —
Credits — —
Malcolm Warner, a former Curator of Paintings and Sculpture at the Center, curated the exhibition, which was accompanied by a published illustrated catalogue. — —
Yale Center for British Art
George Stubbs in the Collection of Paul Mellon: a Memorial Exhibition (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2000-02-14 - 2000-05-15)
34
https://britishart.yale.edu/node/705
300054766
exhibition
George Stubbs in the Collection of Paul Mellon: a Memorial Exhibition
Yale Center for British Art
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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Richmond
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Paul Mellon collected George Stubbs with a passion and an instinctual feel for his qualities. The very first painting Mellon ever purchased was Stubbs’s Pumpkin with a Stable-Lad (1774). He also collected Stubbs comprehensively, even systematically, acquiring drawings, prints, enamels, and Stubbs’s only publication, The Anatomy of the Horse. There is a range and a depth to this collection that no other public or private collection can rival. — —
The Center published a handsome, fully-illustrated book to accompany this exhibition. Designed by Greer Allen and Julie Lavorgna, it has an introductory essay by Malcolm Cormack, Paul Mellon Curator at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and contributions by the curatorial staff of the Center. The book formed part of the Center’s tribute to its munificent founder and brought together for the first time the most remarkable and comprehensive collection of George Stubbs ever created. — —
Venues — —
Yale Center for British Art: April 30–September 1, 1999 — —
Virginia Museum of Fine Art: February 14–May 15, 2000
Yale Center for British Art
George Stubbs in the Collection of Paul Mellon: a Memorial Exhibition (Yale Center for British Art, 1999-04-30 - 1999-09-05)
34
https://britishart.yale.edu/node/705
300054766
exhibition
George Stubbs in the Collection of Paul Mellon: a Memorial Exhibition
Yale Center for British Art
Yale Center for British Art
ycba_actor_1281
https://viaf.org/viaf/155449049
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6352575
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British Art Center
Yale Center for British Art
BAC
YCBA
1977
0
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Yale Center for British Art
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Yale Center for British Art
New Haven
7014210
New Haven
300435424
Paul Mellon collected George Stubbs with a passion and an instinctual feel for his qualities. The very first painting Mellon ever purchased was Stubbs’s Pumpkin with a Stable-Lad (1774). He also collected Stubbs comprehensively, even systematically, acquiring drawings, prints, enamels, and Stubbs’s only publication, The Anatomy of the Horse. There is a range and a depth to this collection that no other public or private collection can rival. — —
The Center published a handsome, fully-illustrated book to accompany this exhibition. Designed by Greer Allen and Julie Lavorgna, it has an introductory essay by Malcolm Cormack, Paul Mellon Curator at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and contributions by the curatorial staff of the Center. The book formed part of the Center’s tribute to its munificent founder and brought together for the first time the most remarkable and comprehensive collection of George Stubbs ever created. — —
Venues — —
Yale Center for British Art: April 30–September 1, 1999 — —
Virginia Museum of Fine Art: February 14–May 15, 2000
Yale Center for British Art
Stubbs - An Exhibition in Honor of Paul Mellon (National Gallery of Art, 1985-04-11 - 1985-05-04)
366
300054766
exhibition
Stubbs - An Exhibition in Honor of Paul Mellon
Yale Center for British Art
National Gallery of Art
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National Gallery of Art
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art
Sally Freitag Registrar
Stephenie Belt
Naomi R. Remes
Earl A. Powell III
0
0
300311675
Borrower
1985-04-11 - 1985-05-04
1985-04-11
1985-05-04
National Gallery of Art
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National Gallery of Art
Washington
7013962
Washington
George Stubbs (1724-1806) Tate Gallery (Tate Britain, 1984-10-17 - 1985-01-06)
354
300054766
exhibition
George Stubbs (1724-1806) Tate Gallery
Yale Center for British Art
Tate Britain
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http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500266827
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q430682
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Tate Britain
The Board of Trustees of the Tate Gallery
0
0
300311675
Borrower
1984-10-17 - 1985-01-06
1984-10-17
1985-01-06
Tate Britain
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Tate Britain
London
7011781
London
George Stubbs (1724-1806) Tate Gallery (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-02-13 - 1985-04-07)
354
300054766
exhibition
George Stubbs (1724-1806) Tate Gallery
Yale Center for British Art
Yale Center for British Art
ycba_actor_1281
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Yale Center for British Art
BAC
YCBA
British Art Center
1977
0
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1985-02-13 - 1985-04-07
1985-02-13
1985-04-07
Yale Center for British Art
ycba_actor_1281
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Yale Center for British Art
New Haven
7014210
New Haven
21174
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300054686
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David Alexander, ^Painters and Engraving: The Reproductive Print from Hogarth to Wilkie, ^, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1980, p. 50, no. 100, NE631.2 .A43 (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
David Alexander
ycba_actor_1344
Alexander David
300025492
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Yale Center for British Art
ycba_actor_1281
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Yale Center for British Art
300025574
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300054686
publication event
John Baskett, ^Paul Mellon's Legacy: a Passion for British Art: Masterpieces from the Yale Center for British Art, ^, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, p. 253, no. 26, pl. 26, N5220 M552 P38 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
John Baskett
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300025492
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Yale Center for British Art
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Yale Center for British Art
300025574
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2007
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New Haven, CT
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Malcolm Cormack, ^George Stubbs in the collection of Paul Mellon : A memorial exhibition, ^, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1999, p. 80, no. 61, NJ18 St915 G54 1999 (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
Malcolm Cormack
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Cormack Malcolm
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Yale Center for British Art
ycba_actor_1281
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Yale Center for British Art
300025574
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1999
1999
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New Haven, CT
21174
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Judy Egerton, ^British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867 : A Catalogue : The Paul Mellon Collection, ^, Tate Publishing, London, 1978, pp. 90-91, no. 87, Colour Pl. 15, ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
Judy Egerton
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Egerton Judy
300025492
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Tate Publishing
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Tate Publishing
300025574
Publisher
1978
1978
1978
London
21174
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Judy Egerton, ^George Stubbs, 1724-1806, [exhibition] Tate Gallery. ^, Tate Publishing, London, 1984, p. 123, no. 86, NJ18 St915 E43 (YCBA) +
Yale Center for British Art
Judy Egerton
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Egerton Judy
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Tate Publishing
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Tate Publishing
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Publisher
1984
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London
21174
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Judy Egerton, ^George Stubbs, painter : catalogue raisonne, ^, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2007, pp. 66-7, 406-8, no. 202, fig. 3, NJ18 St915 A12 +E44 2007 (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
Judy Egerton
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Egerton Judy
300025492
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Yale University Press
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Yale University Press
300025574
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2007
2007
2007
New Haven, CT
21174
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300054686
publication event
^George Stubbs as a Printmaker^, Print Collector's Newsletter, September/October 1982, pp. 113-116, NE1 P76 OVERSIZE (HAAS)
Yale Center for British Art
September/October 1982
1982
1982
21174
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300054686
publication event
Alex Kidson, ^Earlier British paintings in the Walker Art Gallery and Sudley House^, Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, 2012, p. 173, fn 1, ND466 .K537 2012 (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
Alex Kidson
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Kidson Alex
300025492
Author
Liverpool University Press
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Liverpool University Press
300025574
Publisher
2012
2012
2012
Liverpool
21174
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300054686
publication event
C. A. Lennox-Boyd, ^George Stubbs, the complete engraved works ^, Stipple, Warren Farm House, Culham, Abingdon, OX New York : Distributed b, 1989, NJ18 St915 A12 L45 (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
C. A. Lennox-Boyd
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300025492
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Stipple
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Stipple
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1989
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Warren Farm House, Culham, Abingdon, OX New York : Distributed b
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publication event
Paul Mellon, ^Reflections in a silver spoon, a memoir ^, W. Morrow, New York, 1992, p. 281, N5220 M552 1992 (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
Paul Mellon, 1907–1999, American
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Mellon Paul Mr.
300025492
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W. Morrow
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W. Morrow
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Publisher
1992
1992
1992
New York
21174
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Venetia Morrison, ^The art of George Stubbs^, Wellfleet Press, Seacaucus, N.J., 1989, p. 145, NJ18 St915 M67 1989+ (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
Venetia Morrison
ycba_actor_8221
Morrison Venetia
300025492
Author
Wellfleet Press
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Wellfleet Press
300025574
Publisher
1989
1989
1989
Seacaucus, N.J.
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300054686
publication event
^Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], ^, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 3, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
Yale Center for British Art
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Yale Center for British Art
300025574
Publisher
2007
2007
2007
New Haven, CT
21174
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publication event
Duncan Robinson, ^Paul Mellon: a Cambridge tribute, ^, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge [England], 2007, pp. 26-7, 50, N5220 M552 P36 2007 (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
Duncan Robinson
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Robinson Duncan
300025492
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
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Fitzwilliam Museum
300025574
Publisher
2007
2007
2007
Cambridge [England]
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300054686
publication event
^Sleeping Leopard^, Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, June 1981, p. 192, J418 C65D (SML)
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June 1981
1981
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publication event
^Stubbs, an exhibition in honor of Paul Mellon : National Gallery of Art, 4 May-2 June 1985. ^, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1985, pp. 7, 9, no. 29, V 0413 (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
National Gallery of Art
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http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500115983
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q214867
https://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69638c2
https://viaf.org/viaf/157699250
National Gallery of Art
300025574
Publisher
Jenny Saville, Born 1970, British
ycba_actor_6371
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr00005628
http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500057412
https://viaf.org/viaf/47632345
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q441461
Saville Jenny
300025492
Author
1985
1985
1985
Washington, D.C.
21174
688057
N1 B87 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)
05461534
1015
300054686
publication event
Bruce Tattersall, ^A Sleeping Leopard by George Stubbs^, Burlington Magazine, Vol. 118, No.885, December 1976, pp. 848-51, fig. 93, N1 B87 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
Bruce Tattersall
ycba_actor_8828
Tattersall Bruce
300025492
Author
December 1976
1976
1976
21174
3620338
NJ18 St915 T39 1975 (YCBA) +
1152935358
685
300054686
publication event
Basil Taylor, ^Stubbs^, Phaidon, London, 1975, uhy, fig. 12, NJ18 St915 T39 1975 (YCBA) +
Yale Center for British Art
Basil Taylor
ycba_actor_6834
Taylor Basil
300025492
Author
Phaidon
ycba_actor_8178
Phaidon
300025574
Publisher
1975
1975
1975
London
21174
4700909
N5247 M385 P28 2001 (YCBA)
46348788
283
300054686
publication event
Malcolm Warner, ^The Paul Mellon Bequest : treasures of a lifetime, ^, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 19, N5247 M385 P28 2001 (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
Malcolm Warner, born 1953
ycba_actor_1214
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78078373
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16185655
Warner Malcolm
300025492
Author
Yale Center for British Art
ycba_actor_1281
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77005277
http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303557
https://viaf.org/viaf/155449049
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6352575
Yale Center for British Art
300025574
Publisher
2001
2001
2001
New Haven, CT
21174
300157782
acquisition
Yale Center for British Art
ycba_actor_1281
YCBA
BAC
Yale Center for British Art
British Art Center
1977
0
300203630
Owner
2001-01-05
2001-01-05
2001-01-05
300079440
bequest
Stubbs was an incessant experimenter always alert to the potential of new technologies. He had long explored painting enamel on copper but this is the first enamel Stubbs ever made on a ceramic support. He formed a close friendship with the potter and industrialist Josiah Wedgwood who was developing new techniques for the manufacture and distribution of ceramic tableware. In this case Stubbs appears to have taken an oval section of earthenware from a previously manufactured Wedgwood dish, painted it with enamel, and then re-fired it. This experimental object led to a close collaboration between artist and potter, the latter beginning to make large earthenware plaques specifically for Stubbs to paint on, one of which is shown nearby.
--- --- Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2022
21174
300048722
Gallery label
2022
This is the earliest of George Stubbs’s surviving enamels on ceramic. The presence of a Josiah Wedgwood stamp underneath suggests that the support was cut from a piece of commercially produced tableware and then refired. One of Paul Mellon’s most treasured paintings, he kept it on his desk in his Manhattan home.\n\n
Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016
21174
300048722
Gallery label
2016
This small enamel is the earliest of Stubbs's surviving paintings on ceramic supports made by Wedgwood. The presence of a Wedgwood stamp suggests that the support was cut from a Queen's Ware plate and was likely an experiment before Stubbs engaged Wedgwood to supply him with larger ceramic panels. This was one of Paul Mellon's most treasured paintings and sat on the desk in his study in Manhattan.\n\n
Gallery label for Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11)
21174
300048722
Gallery label
2011
Crucially important as the earliest recorded example of Stubbs’s work in enamel on earthenware supports that were made and then fired in Josiah Wedgwood’s factory, this work predates Stubbs’s more ambitious compositions for larger-scale Wedgwood ceramic plaques of canvases, such as Reapers, also in the Yale Center for British Art’s collection. The oval plaque was cut with a grinder from the bottom of a Queen’s Ware plate, and Stubbs created the present work as an experiment with which to demonstrate the possibility and promise of painting in enamel on Wedgwood. Paul Mellon loved this painting and kept it on the desk of his study.\n\n
Gallery label for An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)
21174
300048722
Gallery label
2007
Crucially important as the earliest recorded example of Stubbs's work in enamel on earthenware supports that were made and then fired in Josiah Wedgwood's factory, this work predates Stubbs's more ambitious compositions for larger-scale Wedgwood ceramic plaques or "canvases." The position of the Wedgwood stamp, moreover, strongly suggests that the oval plaque was cut with a grinder from the bottom of a Queen's Ware plate and that Stubbs created the present work as an experiment with which to demonstrate (maybe to the manufacturer) the possibility and promise of painting in enamel on Wedgwood earthenware.
In the 1770s distinctions among the various species of big cat were still rather vague, and the English word tiger was frequently used as a generic term to describe them all except lions. This is why the present work has plausibly been identified with the reference to a "sleeping tiger" in the artist's posthumous sale of 26 May 1807, despite the unequivocal spots.
Paul Mellon loved this little painting and kept it on the desk in his study in the house he kept on East Seventieth Street in New York City.\n\n
Angus Trumble\n\n
John Baskett, Paul Mellon's legacy: a passion for British art : masterpieces from the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, p. 253, no. 26, pl. 26, N5220 M552 P38 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
21174
300111999
Published catalog entry
ycba_actor_6799
Angus Trumble
300025492
Author
2007
5219436
ycba_term_2037249
leopard
300404733
ycba_term_2053004
rocks (landforms)
300132360
ycba_term_17581
plants
300055631
ycba_term_38807
oval
300386044
ycba_term_2036638
animal art
ycba_term_2036684
sleeping
David Alexander, Painters and Engraving: The Reproductive Print from Hogarth to Wilkie, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1980, p. 50, no. 100, NE631.2 .A43 (YCBA)
579179
NE631.2 .A43 (YCBA)
7301328
751
related to
John Baskett, Paul Mellon's Legacy: a Passion for British Art: Masterpieces from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, p. 253, no. 26, pl. 26, N5220 M552 P38 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
7838392
N5220 M552 P38 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
74916141
48
related to
Malcolm Cormack, George Stubbs in the collection of Paul Mellon : A memorial exhibition, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1999, p. 80, no. 61, NJ18 St915 G54 1999 (YCBA)
4523094
NJ18 St915 G54 1999 (YCBA)
43659589
705
related to
Judy Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867 : A Catalogue : The Paul Mellon Collection, , Tate Publishing, London, 1978, pp. 90-91, no. 87, Colour Pl. 15, ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
579309
ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
1001850584
185
related to
Judy Egerton, George Stubbs, 1724-1806, [exhibition] Tate Gallery., Tate Publishing, London, 1984, p. 123, no. 86, NJ18 St915 E43 (YCBA) +
582269
NJ18 St915 E43 (YCBA) +
123177144
671
related to
Judy Egerton, George Stubbs, painter : catalogue raisonne, , Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2007, pp. 66-7, 406-8, no. 202, fig. 3, NJ18 St915 A12 +E44 2007 (YCBA)
7893901
NJ18 St915 A12 +E44 2007 (YCBA)
77256436
663
related to
George Stubbs as a Printmaker, Print Collector's Newsletter, September/October 1982, pp. 113-116, NE1 P76 OVERSIZE (HAAS)
762579
NE1 P76 OVERSIZE (HAAS)
01696653
1020
related to
Alex Kidson, Earlier British paintings in the Walker Art Gallery and Sudley House, Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, 2012, p. 173, fn 1, ND466 .K537 2012 (YCBA)
10964322
ND466 .K537 2012 (YCBA)
768072723
2616
related to
C. A. Lennox-Boyd, George Stubbs, the complete engraved works, Stipple, Warren Farm House, Culham, Abingdon, OX New York : Distributed b, 1989, NJ18 St915 A12 L45 (YCBA)
3038943
NJ18 St915 A12 L45 (YCBA)
21216031
753
related to
Paul Mellon, Reflections in a silver spoon, a memoir, W. Morrow, New York, 1992, p. 281, N5220 M552 1992 (YCBA)
3334638
N5220 M552 1992 (YCBA)
24067608
1631
related to
Venetia Morrison, The art of George Stubbs, Wellfleet Press, Seacaucus, N.J., 1989, p. 145, NJ18 St915 M67 1989+ (YCBA)
889383
NJ18 St915 M67 1989+ (YCBA)
21021833
144
related to
Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 3, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
7964230
N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
701808157
190
related to
Duncan Robinson, Paul Mellon: a Cambridge tribute, , The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge [England], 2007, pp. 26-7, 50, N5220 M552 P36 2007 (YCBA)
8130804
N5220 M552 P36 2007 (YCBA)
170956602
1352
related to
Sleeping Leopard, Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, June 1981, p. 192, J418 C65D (SML)
467625
J418 C65D (SML)
01554906
1010
related to
Stubbs, an exhibition in honor of Paul Mellon : National Gallery of Art, 4 May-2 June 1985., National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1985, pp. 7, 9, no. 29, V 0413 (YCBA)
4210656
V 0413 (YCBA)
54256654
664
related to
Bruce Tattersall, A Sleeping Leopard by George Stubbs, Burlington Magazine, Vol. 118, No.885, December 1976, pp. 848-51, fig. 93, N1 B87 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)
688057
N1 B87 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)
05461534
1015
related to
Basil Taylor, Stubbs, Phaidon, London, 1975, uhy, fig. 12, NJ18 St915 T39 1975 (YCBA) +
3620338
NJ18 St915 T39 1975 (YCBA) +
1152935358
685
related to
Malcolm Warner, The Paul Mellon Bequest : treasures of a lifetime, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 19, N5247 M385 P28 2001 (YCBA)
4700909
N5247 M385 P28 2001 (YCBA)
46348788
283
related to
300055603
500303557
Yale Center for British Art
https://britishart.yale.edu
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
300055598
Public Domain
300435434
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
21174
300133025
Item
500303557
Yale Center for British Art
http://britishart.yale.edu
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:21174
oai:tms.ycba.yale.edu:21174
https://manifests.collections.yale.edu/v2/ycba/obj/21174
https://manifests.collections.yale.edu/ycba/obj/21174
IIIF manifest
Yale Center for British Art
500303557
Yale Center for British Art