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The image shows a group of figures. At the center, a seated woman holds a child on her back. Beside her, another seated female figure is visible. In the foreground, a man with shaggy hair rests against a stone or log. In the left background, a person attends to a donkey drinking from a trough. The backdrop includes architectural elements and a foliaged landscape with a classical appearance, seen in strong lines and shadows typical of a print.
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The image shows a group of figures. At the center, a seated woman holds a child on her back. Beside her, another seated female figure is visible. In the foreground, a man with shaggy hair rests against a stone or log. In the left background, a person attends to a donkey drinking from a trough. The backdrop includes architectural elements and a foliaged landscape with a classical appearance, seen in strong lines and shadows typical of a print.

National Gallery of Art · Print

A Drinking Child with Resting Peasants

Sébastien Bourdon

Date
1636/1640
Medium
etching on laid paper
Dimensions
sheet: 13 × 17.3 cm (5 1/8 × 6 13/16 in.), trimmed to or within platemark
Classification
Print
Accession number
2018.113.39
Credit line
Gift of Alessandra Manning Dolnier
Time span
1601 to 1650
Department
CG-E
Original NGA record

Subjects and terms

  • group
  • figure
  • Dog
  • child
  • portrait
  • Figures
  • Wall
Provenance

Robert and Bertina Suida Manning, Forest Hills, NY; by descent Alessandra Manning and Kurt Dolnier, Watertown, CT, 1996; Gift to NGA, 2018

Inscription

upper left in image: Seb. Bourdon invent. et fecit / L. Boissewin ex. cum privil. Regis

NGA object ID 213247. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.