About the Artwork
The Piping Herdsman and the Dancing Dog
ca. 1775
Claude Gellée (Artist) French, 1600-1682 Richard Earlom (Artist) English, 1743 - 1822 John Boydell (Publisher) English, 1719-1804
Etching and mezzotint printed in brown on laid paper
plate: 8 1/8 x 10 1/8 in. 20.6 x 25.7 cm sheet: 11 x 13 7/8 in. 27.9 x 35.2 cm
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Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S449
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Markings
In plate, lower left: Claude le Lorrain delin,, / No,, 90.; lower center: Published May 1st 1775 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside. / From the Original Drawing, in the Collection of the Duke of Devonshire.; in black ink, bottom left margin: No 449 - The piping herdsman and the dancing Dog. / By - R. Earlom. After Claude Lorrain.
Scripps stamp, verso (Lugt Suppl. 2357a)
Provenance
March 1889, (Sotheby's, London, England). 1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Kitson, M. Claude Lorrain: LIBER VERITATIS. London, 1978, no. 90.
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Richard Earlom; after Claude Gellée, The Piping Herdsman and the Dancing Dog, ca. 1775, etching and mezzotint printed in brown on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S449.
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