Shepherd Boy Speaking to a Farm Girl

1764

Francesco Londonio

Associated Names
Francesco Londonio

Artist, Italian, 1723 - 1783

This is a drawing of a scene featuring a donkey and two figures next to a building. The central focus is on the donkey, with a ladder against a stone wall in the background. The drawing depicts a pastoral or rural setting with detailed textures in the fabrics, fur of the donkey, and the stone wall. The scene conveys a sense of everyday life through the interaction and poses of the figures.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching heightened with white on blue paper

  • Credit Line

    Ellwanger/Mescha Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 23.4 × 18 cm (9 3/16 × 7 1/16 in.) [trimmed within platemark]
    mount: 44 × 26 cm (17 5/16 × 10 1/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2017.19.55

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Scola 1994, no. 48, State i/iii

  • Series Title

    Series of Six Etchings

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(C. G. Boerner, LLC, New York); A. Thompson Ellwanger III and Gregory Mescha, Baltimore; gift to NGA, 2017.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1994

  • Scola, Monica. Catalogo ragionato delle incisioni di Francesco Londonio. Milan, 1994, no. 48, i/iii

Inscriptions

lower left in plate, F.o Londonio; by later hand, lower right on mount, in graphite: 956-988; by later hand, lower right verso, in graphite: N. 33

Wikidata ID

Q76561121

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