id:			149290
accession number:	1978.125
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1978.125
updated:		2023-03-11 20:51:09.213000

Study of a Shepherd, 1700s. France, 18th century. Oil on paper, mounted on board; 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.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Noah L. Butkin 1978.125

title:				Study of a Shepherd
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creation date:			1700s
creation date earliest:		1700
creation date latest:		1709
current location:		216B French and German
creditline:			Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Noah L. Butkin
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culture:	France, 18th century
technique:	oil on paper, mounted on board
department:	European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	P - French 18th Century
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

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measurements: 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.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1978
	opening date:   1979-02-13T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1978</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 13-March 18, 1979).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Galerie Joseph Hahn, Paris, France, sold to Mr. and Mrs. Noah L. Butkin.
	date: By 1973-1974
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	Mr. Noah L. Butkin (1918-1982) and Mrs. Muriel Spiro Butkin (1915-2008), Shaker Heights, OH, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: 1974-1978
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1978-
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wall description:
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.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 156: Mentioned: p. 155, cat. no. 63
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	Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1978.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 66, no. 1 (1979).
	page number: 	p. 15, cat. no. 32
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159613

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IMAGES

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