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)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
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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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.
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