Berger jouant de la flute, ca. 1727

  • Louis Crépy, French, born 1680
  • Gersaint, French
  • Antoine Watteau, French, 1684-1721

Etching printed in black ink on laid paper

  • Sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 15 1/2 × 7 5/8 inches (39.4 × 19.4 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, William C. Yawkey Fund

36.34

Watermark, obscured by image, center Stamped, in brown, verso: J. Model (Lugt Suppl. 1488a)

Inscribed, in plate, lower left: Wateau Pin. Inscribed, lower center: PARAVENT DE SIX FEUILLES. | Chez Gersaint Md. AParis pont Notre Dame Inscribed, lower right: L. Crepy filius Sculp. | I Inscribed, in brown ink, lower left edge: Avec Privilege du Roy.

J. Model

1936-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Louis Crépy; after Antoine Watteau, Berger jouant de la flute, ca. 1727, etching printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, William C. Yawkey Fund, 36.34.