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The Shepherd Playing the Flute

The Shepherd Playing the Flute

(Dutch, 1620–1683)
1644–45
Medium/TechniqueEtching with touches of drypoint
DimensionsSheet: 21.2 x 15.5 cm (8 3/8 x 6 1/8 in.)
Platemark: 20.1 x 14.5 cm (7 15/16 x 5 11/16 in.)
Credit LineKatherine E. Bullard Fund in memory of Francis Bullard
Accession number1996.196
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsIn graphte, beneath image, l.l. (erased): Cuyp
ProvenanceHenri de Triqueti (b. 1802 - d. 1874; Lugt 1304), Paris; May 1878, with Clement, Paris. Adalbert Freiherr von Lanna (b. 1836 - d. 1909; Lugt 2773) Prague; May 11 - 22, 1909, posthumous Lanna sale, Gutekunst, Stuttgart, lot 816, sold for RM 31. 1996, purchased from Hill-Stone, Inc., New York, by the MFA.

see Singer vol. II, 217, item 7680);