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Source 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.
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Document identity
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167577
label
A Seated Shepherdess
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drawing
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1
Source metadata
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167577
contentType
drawing
title
A Seated Shepherdess
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.
date
c. 1836
rights
CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q79999600
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16976
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Drawing
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Sheet: 61.1 x 47.6 cm (24 1/16 x 18 3/4 in.)
cul
France, 19th century
accession
2009.314
Source extras
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black chalk with white heightening and white pastel on brown paper laid down on board
tombstone
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
collection
DR - French
inscriptions
inscription
Signed, lower right, in black chalk: Jules Dupre
didYouKnow
Dupré was known for his evocative skies reflecting different atmospheric conditions.
citations
citation
<em>Catalogue des tableaux et dessins provenant de l’atelier Jules Dupré</em>. Paris: Hotel Drouot, 1890.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 43, probably no. 126
citation
<em>Catalogue des tableaux modernes </em>[. . .] <em>appartenant à divers</em>. Paris: Hôtel Drouot, 1929.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 7, no. 13
citation
Lang, L.-Maurice. <em>La Cote des tableaux, ou Annuaire des ventes </em>[. . .] <em>guide du marchand, de l’amateur</em>, 11:91. Paris: L.-Maurice Lang, 1929.
page_number
Mentioned: vol. 11, p. 91
citation
Aubrun, Marie-Madeleine. <em>Jules Dupré, 1811–1889: Catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre peint, dessiné, et gravé</em>. Paris: L. Laget, 1974.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 376, no. D219
citation
<em>Fine Nineteenth Century European Paintings</em>. New York: Christie, Manson and Woods, 1977.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 16, no. 29
citation
Rohowsky, Peter S. <em>French Nineteenth Century Drawings, Pastels, Watercolors</em>. Exh. cat. New York: Shepherd Gallery, 1977.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: no. 33
citation
Aubrun, Marie-Madeleine. <em>Jules Dupré, 1811–1889: Catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre, supplément</em>. Paris: M.-M. Aubrun, 1982.
page_number
Mentioned: p.191, no. D219; Reproduced: p. 196
citation
Salsbury, Britany. <em>Nineteenth-Century French Drawings: The Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Lewes, UK, Cleveland, Ohio: GILES; Cleveland Museum of Art, 2023.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 92-95, no. 8
catalogueRaisonne
Abrun D.219
creditline
Bequest of Muriel Butkin
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2026-05-29 08:38:08.640000
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167577
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Drawings
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DR - French
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black chalk with white heightening and white pastel on brown paper laid down on board
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male
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