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The Eagar Shepherd (Preparatory drawing for plate 247 in L'Oeuvre gravé de Watteau, 1739)
Gabriel Huquierca. 1730
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
A shepherd makes advances to a shepherdess seated by a gnarled tree on a bank; another tree frames the composition at the right. Arabesque frame composed of garlands, shell-work, hooked scrolls and bat-wing ornamentation. The outer edges of the composition are shaded.
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- Title: The Eagar Shepherd (Preparatory drawing for plate 247 in L'Oeuvre gravé de Watteau, 1739)
- Creator: Gabriel Huquier
- Creator Lifespan: 1695/1772
- Date Created: ca. 1730
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- Medium: Black chalk, brush and gray wash, traces of stylus on cream laid paper
- Provenance: Léon Decloux (in his collection in 1906)
- Paper Support: Cream laid paper
- Exhibitions: Philadelphia, PA - Philadelphia College of Art, "Time and the Image," December 3, 1965 - January 9, 1966.
- Dimensions: 30.3 x 19 cm (11 15/16 x 7 1/2 in.)
- Bibliography: Eidelberg, Martin, "Gabriel Huquier--Friend or Foe of Watteau?" The Print Collector's Newsletter, XV, no.5, (Nov.-Dec. 1984): 162, 164 (illus.).
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