Cleveland Museum of Art
A Seated Shepherdess
Jules DupréLinkedCulture matchlcp-0be8e6f4fa3e
- Date
- c. 1836
- Medium
- black chalk with white heightening and white pastel on brown paper laid down on board
- Culture
- France, 19th century
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 167577
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
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 museum. Dupré was known for his evocative skies reflecting different atmospheric conditions.
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- Credit line
- Bequest of Muriel Butkin
- Provenance
- 1889 - 1890: Estate of the artist | 1890: (his posthumous sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, January 30, 1890, probably no. 126) | 1929: (sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, January 31, 1929, no. 13) | 1977: (sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, New York, May 26, 1977, no. 29, sold to Shepherd Gallery, New York) | 1977: (Shepherd Gallery, New York, sold to Muriel Butkin, Shaker Heights, OH) | 1977-2008: Muriel Butkin [1916-2008], Shaker Heights, OH, by bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH | 2009-: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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