About the Artwork
Group of Five Sheep
1650
Jacob van der Does
1623-1673
Dutch
Unknown
Etching printed in black ink on laid paper
Plate: 4 5/8 × 5 3/4 inches (11.7 × 14.6 cm) Sheet: 7 1/2 × 9 1/2 inches (19.1 × 24.1 cm)
Prints
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S366
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed and dated, in plate, upper right: J. Van Der Does [barely visible] | [date is not visible]
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Watermark, center of sheet: [cursive initials] Stamp, verso: Scripps 1892 [added in ink to the stamp] (Lugt Suppl. 2357a)]
Provenance
June 1892, Heinrich Klemm and Theodore Grosse Collections Sale (Dresden, Germany). 1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Jacob van der Does, Group of Five Sheep, 1650, etching printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S366.
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