Cleveland Museum of Art

Noon

Gilles Demarteau

Date

c. 1776

Medium

chalk-manner etching and engraving

Culture

France, 18th century

Department

Prints

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

Scenes representing times of day or the seasons were frequently used to thematically decorate rooms, and were suitable subjects for suites of prints. This example depicting a young shepherdess avoiding the noonday sun is from a set that also features Morning, Afternoon, and Evening . Each scene portrays the bucolic life of a shepherd or shepherdess in a rural landscape. Demarteau colored the prints to appear like drawings made with black and red chalk with wash, similar to Boucher’s The Departure of Jacob nearby.

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