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Landscape with Shepherd and Shepherdess
One of the Perelles (French, active 1625–1695)
about 1625-1695
Medium/Technique
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 24.7 × 31.8 cm (9 3/4 × 12 1/2 in.)(with thread margins all around)
Credit Line
Anonymous gift
Accession NumberM7549
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
In this impression, the bottom right corner of the plate has been abraded out and a new etched scene has been inserted by another hand, showing a shepherd and shepherdess with goats, a sheep, and a cow, and a mountain peak in the background. This was presumably done much later than the original print, for the shepherd and shepherdess are in eighteenth-century costume.
Marks
Verso, right center, stamped in violet ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 1868)
ProvenanceAnonymous gift. (Accession Date: June 12, 1891)