Shepherd and Shepherdess

between 1500 and 1530

Not On View

Shepherd and Shepherdess: 1 of Collection Gallery

Shepherd and Shepherdess: 2 of Collection Gallery

Shepherd and Shepherdess: 3 of Collection Gallery

Shepherd and Shepherdess: 4 of Collection Gallery

Shepherd and Shepherdess: 5 of Collection Gallery

Shepherd and Shepherdess: 6 of Collection Gallery

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About the Artwork

Title Shepherd and Shepherdess

Artwork Date between 1500 and 1530

Artist ----------

Life Dates ----------

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Flemish

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Wool and silk

Dimensions Overall (Post-Conservation Treatment): 79 × 162 3/4 inches (200.7 cm × 4 m 13.4 cm) Overall (Pre-Conservation Treatment): 83 × 167 inches (210.8 cm × 4 m 24.2 cm)

Classification Tapestries

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Bequest of Eleanor Clay Ford

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 77.9

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Inscriptions Inscribed, near head of lady: Mout me plaist ce getil bouchage | le layme tant que ie nen hobbe | et bref pour faire bon mesnage | le ne veuil que ma garderobe Inscribed, near head of knight: Bergerette plaisant et saige | metryez vous point sous vostre robe | ce que vous bailleray en gaige | afin que on ne le vous desrobe

Provenance

ca. 1515-1530, possibly made for Françoise de Tournemine.
by 1889, Charles Mège (Paris, France).
(Raoul Heilbronner, Paris, France);
November 2, 1928, (French & Co., New York, New York, USA);
November 19, 1928, (Parish Watson & Co., New York, New York, USA);
Eleanor Clay Ford (Grosse Pointe Shores, Michigan, USA);
1977-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Migeon, Gaston. "Collection de M. Ch. Mège." Les Arts 8, no. 86 (February 1909): pp. 2-19; p. 2 (ill.).

Seventh Loan Exhibition: French Gothic Art of the Thirteenth to Fifteenth Century. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1928, no. 103 [see also, Weibel, Adele C. "Tapestries"].

Cavallo, Adolph Salvatore. "The Garden of Vanity: 'A Millefleurs' Tapestry." Bulletin of the DIA 57, no. 1 (1979): pp. 30-39 (ill.) [As "The Garden of Vanity"].

Cavallo, Adolph Salvatore. Medieval Tapestries in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1993, pp. 485-487 (ill.) [see no. 35].

Darr, Alan Phipps and Tracey Albainy. Woven Splendor: Five Centuries of European Tapestry at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1996, pp. 4 (ill.), 13, 20-23, no. 2 (ill.).

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