Study of a Shepherd (1700s): Art, History and Details

Study of a Shepherd (1700s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

The attribution of this unsigned painting remains unsettled and may be by a French or Italian artist. Among the names proposed have been Joseph-Marie Vien the Elder and Hugues Taraval.

Object facts

• Title: Study of a Shepherd
• Date: 1700s
• Culture: France
• Type: Painting
• Technique: oil on paper, mounted on board
• Dimensions: Framed: 64 x 52.5 x 4.5 cm (25 3/16 x 20 11/16 x 1 3/4 in.); Unframed: 54 x 42.5 cm (21 1/4 x 16 3/4 in.)
• Collection: P - French 18th Century
• Department: European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1978.125

Collection credit

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Noah L. Butkin

Further reading listed by the museum

• The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.
• Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1978.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 66, no. 1 (1979).

View the collection record

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