1955.187: The Engaging Shepherdess

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1955.187

People

Claude-Jean-Baptiste Hoin, French (Dijon 1750 - 1817 Dijon)

Title

The Engaging Shepherdess

Other Titles

Original Language Title: La Bergère Engageante

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

18th-19th century

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/296902

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor, gouache and black ink, on colored (?) antique laid paper, framing lines in brown and black ink and red chalk

Dimensions

actual: 21.4 x 17.4 cm (8 7/16 x 6 7/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

David-Weill, Collector. According to sticker

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Charles E. Dunlap

Accession Year

1955

Object Number

1955.187

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Alvin L. Clark, Jr., "To Delight the Eye": French Drawings and Paintings from the Collection of Charles E. Dunlap, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 2005), no. 11, p. 8
• Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Francesco Buccella, Sonia Couturier, Marie-Anne Dupuy-Vachey, Melissa Hyde, Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Isabelle Mayer-Michalon, and Xavier Salmon, Tradition & Transitions: Eighteenth-Century French Art from The Horvitz Collection, exh. cat., ed. Alvin L. Clark, Jr., The Horvitz Collection (2017), p. 535-n.7

Exhibition History

• "To Delight the Eye": French Drawings and Paintings from the Collection of Charles E. Dunlap, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 12/17/2005 - 03/12/2006

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