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A shepherd holding a lion on a leash in the foreground, in the middle ground the shepherd stands in a meadow surrounded by wild beasts, in the background the shepherd is seated on a rock with the lion at his side; from 'Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France, Cabinet Crozat' after a drawing by Baldassare Peruzzi

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A shepherd holding a lion on a leash in the foreground, in the middle ground the shepherd stands in a meadow surrounded by wild beasts, in the background the shepherd is seated on a rock with the lion at his side; from 'Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France, Cabinet Crozat' after a drawing by Baldassare Peruzzi

Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi|Nicolas Le Sueur|Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, comte de Caylus

Date
ca. 1729–64
Medium
Etching and aquatint with tone woodblock
Dimensions
Sheet: 20 7/8 × 15 1/4 in. (53 × 38.8 cm) Plate: 12 15/16 × 8 1/16 in. (32.8 × 20.5 cm)
Object type
Print
Classification
Prints
Object number
60.708(3)
Credit line
Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1960
Original Met record Artist authority

Artist information

Italian, Ancaiano 1481–1536 Rome|French, 1691–1764|French, Paris 1692–1765 Paris

The Met object ID 698009. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.