- Title:
Lustre, held by a Groom
- Date:
- ca. 1762
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- Frame: 46 1/2 × 56 3/4 inches (118.1 × 144.1 cm), 40 1/8 x 50 inches (101.9 x 127 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed, lower right: "Lustre"
Signed, lower right: "Geo : Stubbs . Pinx :"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B2001.2.122
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B2001.2.122FR
- Subject Terms:
- animal | coat | equestrian | groom | horse (animal) | landscape | livery (uniforms) | rural | sporting art | woods
- Access:
- Not on view
Note: To make an appointment to see this work, please contact the Paintings and Sculpture department at ycba.paintings@yale.edu. Please visit the Paintings and Sculpture collections page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:21173
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George Stubbs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2015-03-23 - 2015-11-13) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Stubbs & The Horse (The National Gallery, London, 2005-06-29 - 2005-09-25) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Stubbs & The Horse (The Walters Art Museum, 2005-03-05 - 2005-05-20) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Stubbs & The Horse (Kimbell Art Museum, 2004-11-14 - 2005-02-06) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Great British Paintings from American Collections: Holbein to Hockney (The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, 2002-02-01 - 2002-05-05) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
Great British Paintings from American Collections: Holbein to Hockney (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-09-27 - 2001-12-30) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
The Paul Mellon Bequest : Treasures of a Lifetime (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-02-17 - 2001-04-29) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
George Stubbs in the Collection of Paul Mellon: a Memorial Exhibition (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2000-02-14 - 2000-05-15) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
George Stubbs in the Collection of Paul Mellon: a Memorial Exhibition (Yale Center for British Art, 1999-04-30 - 1999-09-05) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
Stubbs - An Exhibition in Honor of Paul Mellon (National Gallery of Art, 1985-04-11 - 1985-05-04) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
George Stubbs (1724-1806) Tate Gallery (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-02-13 - 1985-04-07) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
George Stubbs (1724-1806) Tate Gallery (Tate Britain, 1984-10-17 - 1985-01-06) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
[ Advertisement ] : Sotheby's : Important Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Pictures [Sale date : 18 November 1970 ], , The Times (London), London, November 10. 1970, p. 22, Available online : Times Digital Archive Also available on Microfilm : An T482 (SML) [ORBIS]
[ Advertisement ] : Sotheby's Advertisement for Sale on November 18, 1970 (Important Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Pictures), Apollo, November 1970, p. 135, N1 A54 + (YCBA) [YCBA]
[ Front Matter ] : Sotheby's Advertisement for Sale on November 18, 1970 (Important Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Pictures), Burlington Magazine, vol. 112,no.812, November 1970, p. xlv, N1 B87 + (YCBA) Available online through JStor. [YCBA]
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. 36, fig. 12, N5220 M552 P38 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
Robert Colls, This sporting life : sport and liberty in England, 1760-1960, Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K., 2020, pp. 57, 371, GV706.35 .C65 2020 (LC) YCBA [ORBIS]
Malcolm Cormack, George Stubbs in the collection of Paul Mellon : A memorial exhibition, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1999, pp. 17, 22, no. 3, NJ18 St915 G54 1999 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Richard Dorment, Beauty of the Beast, George Stubbs' meticulous paintings of horses made him greatest artist-scientist since Leonardo , Calgary Herald, July 9, 2005, p. G8, available online (Orbis) [ORBIS]
Judy Egerton, 'So Good with the Humbler Persons' : Stubbs as Portraitist, Burlington Magazine, vol. 149, October 2007, pp. 673, fig. 5, N1 B87 (LC) + (YCBA) [YCBA]
Judy Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867 : A Catalogue : The Paul Mellon Collection, , Tate Publishing, London, 1978, p. 68, no. 68, pl. 25, ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
Judy Egerton, George Stubbs, 1724-1806, [exhibition] Tate Gallery. , Tate Publishing, London, 1984, p. 68, no. 40, NJ18 St915 E43 (YCBA) + [YCBA]
Judy Egerton, George Stubbs, painter : catalogue raisonne, , Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2007, pp. 154-5, no. 26, NJ18 St915 A12 +E44 2007 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Catherine M. Gordon, British paintings Hogarth to Turner, Frederick Warne, London, 1981, p. 62, ND466 G67 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Chet Hagan, The Paul Mellon collection of sporting art, 1972, pp. 1218-1219, V 0368 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Geraldine Keen, £68,000 for a George Stubbs Horse and Groom, The Times (London), London, Thursday, November 19, 1970, p. 5, Available online : Times Digital Archive Also available on Microfilm : An T482 (SML) [ORBIS]
Lustre, British Racehorse, vol. 24, December 1972, front cover, SF338 B75 + (YCBA) [YCBA]
Robert Michael Neuman, Baroque and Rococo art and architecture, Pearson, Boston, 2013, pp. 399, 401, fig. 14.20, N6415.B3 N48 2013 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 1, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
J. H. Plumb, The pursuit of happiness : a view of life in Georgian England : an exhibition selected from the Paul Mellon collection, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1977, pp. 63, 129, no. 149, fig. 149, N6766 Y34 1977 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Duncan Robinson, At home to sporting art : the Brick House, Essays of Friends of British Sporting Art, no. 33, The British Sporting Art Trust, Summer 1997, pp. 2, 4, N8250 .B751 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Sotheby's Advertisement for Sale on November 18, 1970 (Important Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Pictures, Connoisseur, vol. 175, November 1970, p. 106, N1 C75 + (YCBA) Available online in JSTOR [YCBA]
Sotheby's sale catalogue : Catalogue of Important Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Pictures : 18 November 1970., Sotheby's, London, November 18, 1970, pp. 20-21, lot 28, Auction Catalogues (YCBA) Also available ion microfilm : Film B12, reel 160. (YCBA)
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. 2, 8, no. 16, V 0413 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Basil Taylor, Stubbs, Phaidon, London, 1975, p. 214, pl. 118, NJ18 St915 T39 1975 (YCBA) + [YCBA]
Basil Taylor, Stubbs, Phaidon, London, 1971, pl. 118, NJ18 St915 +T39 1971B (YCBA) [YCBA]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Paintings by George Stubbs from the Yale Center for British Art, Accessed June 5, 2023, https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2015/george-stubbs [Website]
Malcolm Warner, Great British paintings from American collections : Holbein to Hockney, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, pp. 100-2, no. 21, ND464 W27 2001 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Malcolm Warner, Stubbs and the Horse, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2004, pp.front and 1, 15, 174, no. 34, NJ18 St915 W37 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Malcolm Warner, The Paul Mellon Bequest : treasures of a lifetime, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 79, N5247 M385 P28 2001 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Marina Warner, The Analyst: Whether Painting Men or Horses, George Stubbs Knew What Made Them Tick, Connoisseur, v. 215,, March 1985, pp. 132-6, N1 C75 + (YCBA) [YCBA]
John Wilmerding, Essays in honor of Paul Mellon, collector and benefactor, Essays , National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC & Hanover, NH, 1986, p. 27-28, N7442.2 M455 1986 (YCBA) [YCBA]