id: 167577 accession number: 2009.314 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2009.314 updated: 2023-04-22 12:24:40.149000 A Seated Shepherdess, c. 1836. Jules Dupré (French, 1811–1889). Black chalk with white heightening and white pastel on brown paper laid down on board; sheet: 61.1 x 47.6 cm (24 1/16 x 18 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin 2009.314 title: A Seated Shepherdess title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1836 creation date earliest: 1831 creation date latest: 1841 current location: 101B Prints & Drawings creditline: Bequest of Muriel Butkin copyright: --- culture: France, 19th century technique: black chalk with white heightening and white pastel on brown paper laid down on board department: Drawings collection: DR - French type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: Abrun D.219 --- CREATORS * Jules Dupré (French, 1811–1889) - artist Like other members of the Barbizon School, Dupré began his career as a porcelain painter, working in the factory of his father François Dupré. Gradually becoming more influenced by naturalistic landscape painting, he took lessons from Jean-Michel Diébolt, and began making sojourns to paint natural settings in the provinces. Dupré's work differed from others' in the Barbizon School because he did not strictly associate himself with the area around the Forest of Fontainebleau, instead preferring the village of L'Isle d'Adam north of Paris, and his work tended to be more romantic. Like many of his Barbizon contemporaries, Duprée was influential with the Impressionists. --- measurements: Sheet: 61.1 x 47.6 cm (24 1/16 x 18 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signed, lower right, in black chalk: Jules Dupre translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Pure Color: Pastels from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2016-11-19T05:00:00 Pure Color: Pastels from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 19, 2016-March 19, 2017). title: Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2023-01-20T05:00:00 Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 20-April 30, 2023). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * French Nineteenth Century Drawings, Pastels, Watercolors. Shepherd Gallery, New York (November 1977–February 1978). --- PROVENANCE Estate of the artist date: 1889 - 1890 footnotes: citations: (his posthumous sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, January 30, 1890, probably no. 126) date: 1890 footnotes: citations: (sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, January 31, 1929, no. 13) date: 1929 footnotes: citations: (sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, New York, May 26, 1977, no. 29, sold to Shepherd Gallery, New York) date: 1977 footnotes: citations: (Shepherd Gallery, New York, sold to Muriel Butkin, Shaker Heights, OH) date: 1977 footnotes: citations: Muriel Butkin [1916-2008], Shaker Heights, OH, by bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1977-2008 footnotes: citations: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2009- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Dupré was known for his evocative skies reflecting different atmospheric conditions. digital description: wall description: Unique for Jules Dupré, who mostly recorded landscapes, this sheet features a woman holding a crook for herding sheep. Many middle-class collectors at the time were eager for images of rural life while cities grew and factories proliferated. Cleveland’s drawing forms a pair with a similar depiction of a male shepherd, also created using wetted and burnished white pastel on earthy brown paper. It is one of numerous objects in these galleries formerly owned by Clevelander Muriel Butkin, a passionate scholar and collector of French art from the 1800s who bequeathed nearly 300 drawings to the museum. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Catalogue des tableaux et dessins provenant de l’atelier Jules Dupré. Paris: Hotel Drouot, 1890. page number: Mentioned: p. 43, probably no. 126 url: Catalogue des tableaux modernes [. . .] appartenant à divers. Paris: Hôtel Drouot, 1929. page number: Mentioned: p. 7, no. 13 url: Lang, L.-Maurice. La Cote des tableaux, ou Annuaire des ventes [. . .] guide du marchand, de l’amateur, 11:91. Paris: L.-Maurice Lang, 1929. page number: Mentioned: vol. 11, p. 91 url: Aubrun, Marie-Madeleine. Jules Dupré, 1811–1889: Catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre peint, dessiné, et gravé. Paris: L. Laget, 1974. page number: Mentioned: p. 376, no. D219 url: Fine Nineteenth Century European Paintings. New York: Christie, Manson and Woods, 1977. page number: Mentioned: p. 16, no. 29 url: Rohowsky, Peter S. French Nineteenth Century Drawings, Pastels, Watercolors. Exh. cat. New York: Shepherd Gallery, 1977. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: no. 33 url: Aubrun, Marie-Madeleine. Jules Dupré, 1811–1889: Catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre, supplément. Paris: M.-M. Aubrun, 1982. page number: Mentioned: p.191, no. D219; Reproduced: p. 196 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2009.314/2009.314_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2009.314/2009.314_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2009.314/2009.314_full.tif