print
- Museum number
- 1855,0609.165
- Title
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Series: Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France
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Series: Recueil Crozat
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Series: Cabinet Crozat
- Description
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A shepherd holding a lion on a leash and walking towards the entrance of a classical building where two figures are seen waiting; in the background, to the left, the same shepherd standing in a fenced meadow, surrounded by menacing wild beasts, with the lion licking his leg, thus signifying the young man is to be spared; further back, the shepherd seated on a rock, the lion resting at his side; after a drawing by Baldassare Peruzzi. c.1729/64
Etching and aquatint imitating a chiaroscuro woodcut, printed in brown
- Production date
- 1729-1764 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 324 millimetres
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Width: 202 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- From the 'Cabinet Crozat' set; see 1907,1121.14 for comment.
For earlier state, with the chiaroscuro woodcut instead of aquatint, see 1955,1109.8.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1855
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1855,0609.165