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Shepherds and Shepherdesses

(German, 1740–1812)
1782
Medium/TechniqueWatercolor and gouache over graphite
DimensionsSheet: 41 x 28.5 cm (16 1/8 x 11 1/4 in.)
Framed: 59.7 x 49.5 cm (23 1/2 x 19 1/2 in.)
Credit LineBequest of Forsyth Wickes—The Forsyth Wickes Collection
Accession number65.2577
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsWatercolors
InscriptionsLower left in pen: Heinsius invenit/ et deliniavit/ 82 Inforamtion on frame
ProvenanceGilbert Levy; Rosenberg and Stiebel, New York; April 16, 1953, sold by Rosenberg and Stiebel to Forsyth Wickes (b. 1876 – d. 1964), New York, Paris, Rhode Island; 1965, bequest of Forsyth Wickes to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 24, 1965)