Shepherd Playing a Flute and Leading His Flock

Not on View

Medium

pen and two shades of brown ink over black chalk on brown laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 15.2 x 24.2 cm (6 x 9 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

Accession Number

2010.93.11

Artists / Makers

Domenico Campagnola (artist) Venetian, before 1500 - 1564

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand at lower left, in pen and black ink, WE. [Lugt 2616: William Edwards]; by different later hand at lower left, in pen and black ink, J.C.R. [Lugt 1433: Sir John Charles Robinson]

Provenance

Sir Thomas Lawrence [1769-1830; Lugt 2445]; William Esdaile [1758-1837; Lugt 2617], London. Sir John Charles Robinson [1824-1913; Lugt 1433], London. (Yvonne Ffrench, London, by 1965); Joseph F. McCrindle [1923-2008], New York, 1965; bequest to NGA, 2008.

Associated Names

Edwards, William
McCrindle, Joseph F.
Robinson, John Charles, Sir

Exhibition History

1965: Exhibition of Old Master Drawings. Yvonne ffrench, London, 1965, no. 1.

1991: Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Joseph F. McCrindle. The Art Museum, Princeton University, and elsewhere. Princeton, 1991, 26-27, no. 4 (Frederick A. den Broeder).

Bibliography

2012: Grasselli, Margaret M., and Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., eds. The McCrindle Gift: A Distinguished Collection of Drawings and Watercolors. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art. Washington, 2012: 179 (color).