Art, literature & history
Shepherds in a Landscape before a Fortified Town
1777
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- pen and brown ink with brown wash over graphite on laid paper
- Dimensions
- Overall (approximate): 26.9 x 40.5 cm (10 9/16 x 15 15/16 in.) support: 33.6 x 45.6 cm (13 1/4 x 17 15/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1982.25.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jean-Baptiste Le Prince. Shepherds in a Landscape before a Fortified Town. Jean-Baptiste Le Prince; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jean-Baptiste_Le_Prince,_Shepherds_in_a_Landscape_before_a_Fortified_Town,_1777,_NGA_61156.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Shepherds in a Landscape before a Fortified Town — Jean-Baptiste Le Prince. 1777.
Medium: pen and brown ink with brown wash over graphite on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): Overall (approximate): 26.9 x 40.5 cm (10 9/16 x 15 15/16 in.) support: 33.6 x 45.6 cm (13 1/4 x 17 15/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1982.25.1. Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.