A Seated Shepherdess
c. 1836
- Medium
- black chalk with white heightening and white pastel on brown paper laid down on board
- Dimensions
- 61.1 × 47.6 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-208418
Unique for Jules Dupré, who mostly recorded landscapes, this sheet features a woman holding a crook for herding sheep. Many middle-class collectors at the time were eager for images of rural life while cities grew and factories proliferated. Cleveland’s drawing forms a pair with a similar depiction of a male shepherd, also created using wetted and burnished white pastel on earthy brown paper. It is one of numerous objects in these galleries formerly owned by Clevelander Muriel Butkin, a passionate scholar and collector of French art from the 1800s who bequeathed nearly 300 drawings to the mus…
Provenance
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin, 2009.314
Registry history
- c. 1836 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — drawings
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