Shepherdess Speaking to Her Dog, 1653

  • Karel Dujardin, Dutch, 1622-1678

Etching printed in black ink on laid paper

  • Sheet: 7 3/4 × 8 5/8 inches (19.7 × 21.9 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S631

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Signed, in plate, upper left of image: KDV. JARDIN fec | 1653

Stamp, verso: Scripps 1886 (Lugt Suppl. 2357a) [date added in ink to the stamp]

Inscribed, in plate, lower right: 31 Inscribed, in brown ink, center lower margin: [illegible] Inscribed, in brown ink, verso [illegible, possible reference to 18th C. provenance]

August 1886, N.C. Perkins. Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Fagan. L. Handbook to the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum. London, 1876, no. 384.

Karel Dujardin, Shepherdess Speaking to Her Dog, 1653, etching printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S631.