2001.114: June: Sheep-Shearing (from a Series of Twelve Months)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2001.114

People

Attributed to Claude Simpol, French (1666 - 1716)
Previously attributed to Jacques Stella, French (Lyon 1596 - 1657 Paris)

Title

June: Sheep-Shearing (from a Series of Twelve Months)

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

17th-18th century

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/169506

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black and brown ink, gray wash, over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, incised

Dimensions

sight: 22.3 x 30.3 cm (8 3/4 x 11 15/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Jean-Christophe Baudequin at Galerie Ratton et Ladriere, Paris; Galerie Eric Coatalem, Paris (as of 2001); Harvard Art Museum/ Fogg Museum, 2001, inv. no. 2001.114

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of the Jeffrey E. Horvitz Foundation

Accession Year

2001

Object Number

2001.114

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums Annual Report 2000-2001 (Cambridge, MA, 2002), p. 10, repr.
• Jamie Mulherron, Claude Simpol's "Divertissemens" for Jean Mariette, Print Quarterly, Print Quarterly Publications (London, March 2008), vol. XXV, no. 1, pp. 23-36, p. 30, fig. 10, repr.
• Margaret Morgan Grasselli, "Tanging the Bees: A Curious Apiarian Practice in a Drawing by Claude Simpol", Master Drawings, Master Drawings Association (2009), vol. 47, no. 4, Winter, pp. 443-446, pp. 443, 446 n. 2

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