About the Artwork
Shepherd Sitting on the Fountain
1652
Nicolaes Berchem (Artist) Dutch, 1620-1683 Justus Danckerts (Publisher) Dutch, 1666-1692
Etching printed in black ink on laid paper
Plate: 10 3/8 × 8 1/4 inches (26.4 × 21 cm) Sheet: 10 1/2 × 8 1/2 inches (26.7 × 21.6 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S130
Public Domain
Markings
Signed, in plate, lower right: Berghem .f.
Inscribed, in plate, lower right, following artist's name: 1652 Justus Dankers | Excudit. Inscribed, lower right corner of plate: 1 Inscribed, in pencil, verso: [notations]
Watermark, verso, sketched in pencil Stamped, in black, verso, lower right: [very faint stamp]
Provenance
March 23, 1892, W. H. Brearley sale.Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Nicolaes Berchem, Shepherd Sitting on the Fountain, 1652, etching printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S130.
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