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Print, Seated Shepherd Playing with a Dog

This is a Print. It was after Jean-Baptiste Huët and Jean-Baptiste Marie Huet and engraved by Gilles Demarteau. It is dated 1770–75 and we acquired it in 1923. Its medium is crayon manner engraving on heavy cream laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

Its dimensions are

19.0 x 24.0 cm (7 1/2 x 9 7/16 in. ), plate

It has the following markings

Mark: Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration stamp in brown, lower center right, verso: Lugt 457e

It is signed

Imprinted in red-brown ink, lower left margin: J.B. Huët inv. del. 1770.; lower right margin: Demarteau l'ainé sc./N°. 213

It is inscribed

Imprinted in red-brown ink, lower center: A Paris chéz Demarteau Graveur du Roi rue de la Pelterie a la Choche

Cite this object as

Print, Seated Shepherd Playing with a Dog; Engraved by Gilles Demarteau (Belgian, active in France, 1722 – 1776); After Jean-Baptiste Huët (1745 – 1811), Jean-Baptiste Marie Huet (French, 1745 - 1811); France; crayon manner engraving on heavy cream laid paper; 19.0 x 24.0 cm (7 1/2 x 9 7/16 in. ), plate; 1923-21-2

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