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Landscape with Shepherds and their Flocks
Landscape with Shepherds and their Flocks

Landscape with Shepherds and their Flocks

Artist Jean Baptiste Pillement (French, 1728 - 1808)
Date1762
MediumBlack chalk and conté crayon on paper
DimensionsOverall: 10 3/4 × 16 3/8 inches (27.31 × 41.58 cm)
Framed: 17 3/4 × 23 1/2 × 1 1/2 inches (45.09 × 59.69 × 3.81 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Blake K. Thomas
Object numberF85-36/3
On View
Not on view
Collections
Exhibition History

Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, June 23-August 18, 1996; The Cummer Museum and Gardens, Jacksonville, FL, September 20-November 29, 1996; The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, December 21, 1996-March 2, 1997, no. 51, as Landscape with Shepherds and their Flocks (a pair).

Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 12-September 6, 1998, no cat., as Landscape with Shepherds and their Flocks (a pair).

Escape to Eden: The Pastoral Vision in Eighteenth-Century France, Milwaukee Art Museum, WI, March 19-May 30, 1999, unnumbered, as Landscape with Shepherds and their Flocks.

Looking at Historic Lands: Urban and Rural, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 15-June 10, 2012, no cat., as Landscape with Shepherds and their Flocks.

Provenance

Given by Mr. and Mrs. Blake K Thomas, Ashton, MD, to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1985.

Published References

Roger Ward, Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 165-67, (repro.), as Landscape with Shepherds and their Flocks (a pair).

Laurie Winters, Escape to Eden: The Pastoral Vision in Eighteenth-Century France, exh. cat. (Milwaukee, WI: Milwaukee Art Museum, 1999), unpaginated, (repro.), as Landscape with Shepherds and their Flocks.

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