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Shepherdess Watering Sheep

(French, 1813–1894)
1881
Country of Origin, for CustomsFrance
Medium/TechniqueOil on canvas
DimensionsOverall: 81.9 x 100.3cm (32 1/4 x 39 1/2in.)
Other (Framed): 120.7 x 15.2 x 139.7cm (47 1/2 x 6 x 55in.)
Overall: 81.3 x 100.3 x 2.5 cm (32 x 39 1/2 x 1 in.)
Credit LineGift of Miss Louisa W. and Miss Marian R. Case
Accession number20.1867
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPaintings
Collections
InscriptionsLower left: ch. Jacque 1881
ProvenanceBy 1884, W.F. Johnson, Boston [see note 1]. 1892, possibly George H. Chickering, Boston; June 2, 1892, possibly Chickering sale, Leonard and Co., Boston, lot 27 [see note 2]. Louisa W. Case (1862-1946) and Marian R. Case (1864-1944), Weston; 1920, gift of Misses Louisa W. and Marian R. Case to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 26, 1920)

NOTES:
[1] According to notes in the MFA curatorial file, Johnson lent the painting to the M. C. M. A. Fifteenth Exhibition, Boston, in 1884 (no. 56).
[2] According to notes in the MFA curatorial file.
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