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About the Artwork

Seated Shepherd

18th century

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French

French

Black chalk, heightened with white, on tan paper

Sheet: 9 3/4 × 7 15/16 inches (24.8 × 20.2 cm) Framed: 16 1/4 × 14 3/4 × 1 inches (41.3 × 37.5 × 2.5 cm)

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Bequest of John S. Newberry

65.135

This work is in the public domain.

Markings

Inscribed, in black chalk, upper right: 13 Inscribed, in pencil, verso, lower right: A 23668

Provenance

John S. Newberry (New York, New York, USA) 1965-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Fifty-one Watercolors and Drawings: John S. Newberry Collection. Exh, cat., Museum of Fine Arts. Boston, 1962, no. 23.

Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, p. 331, no. A83.

The John S. Newberry Collection. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1965, p. 18 (ill.).

Slatkin, Regina Shoolman. François Boucher in North American Collections: One Hundred Drawings. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago. Washington, D.C., and Chicago, no. 65.

Thirty-Three Drawings from the Collection of John S. Newberry, Class of 1933. Exh. cat., Fogg Museum. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1960, no. 1.

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French, Seated Shepherd, 18th century, black chalk, heightened with white, on tan paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of John S. Newberry, 65.135.

Seated Shepherd
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