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Shepherd and Shepherdess in a Bucolic Landscape

Jean-Baptiste Huet1770

The J. Paul Getty Museum

The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States

This typically pastoral Rococo drawing depicts a young couple hiding from prying eyes between a thatched roof and haystack and behind some trees. The young woman is sitting up to observe cattle herded back from grazing, while the young man remains in hiding, hardly visible to the viewer. The composition is deliberately concealing, as if to suggest that secrecy is its true subject.

The sheet dates from the year François Boucher died, and it shows the extent to which Huet adopted his predecessor's sensuously pictorial technique, which often involved using different kinds of chalk.

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  • Title: Shepherd and Shepherdess in a Bucolic Landscape
  • Creator: Jean-Baptiste Huet
  • Date Created: 1770
  • Location Created: France
  • Physical Dimensions: 42.6 × 30.4 cm (16 3/4 × 11 15/16 in.)
  • Type: Drawing
  • External Link: Find out more about this object on the Museum website.
  • Medium: Black and white chalk, ink framing line
  • Terms of Use: Open Content
  • Number: 2013.62
  • Culture: French
  • Credit Line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Gift of SARL Marty de Cambiaire
  • Creator Display Name: Jean-Baptiste Huet (French, 1745 - 1811)
  • Classification: Drawings (Visual Works)
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