A Farmer and a Sheep Crossing a Rustic Bridge

Jean-Baptiste Le Prince

Associated Names
Jean-Baptiste Le Prince

Artist, French, 1734 - 1781

The image shows a pastoral scene from an elevated point of view. The horizon is depicted by a faint line of distant trees and hills merging with the sky. In the center, a figure is riding an animal across a rustic bridge over a stream. Tall trees frame the scene, with delicate branches reaching upwards in a canopy. Birds are faintly visible in the sky. The brushstroke style is intricate and delicate, with fine lines composing the trees and foliage. The color palette is monochromatic, dominated by sepia tones.

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Provenance

Elsie de Wolfe, Lady Mendl; (sale, London, Sotheby's, 1 December 1966, lot 66); (purchased by Colnaghi Drawings); purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA, 1967; gift to NGA, 1995.

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Inscriptions

by later hand, upper left verso in graphite: 2491 / Le Prince; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: Prince 3661

Watermarks

Crown over CR

Wikidata ID

Q64581158

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