Shepherd with His Flock in a Clearing

1776

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Brush, brown wash over black chalk. Framing lines in pen and brown ink.
Dimensions: 10 9/16 x 13 5/16 in. (26.8 x 33.8 cm)
Collection no.: 61.164
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Jean-Baptiste Le Prince. Shepherd with His Flock in a Clearing. Jean-Baptiste Le Prince; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Rogers Fund, 1961. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Shepherd with His Flock in a Clearing — Jean-Baptiste Le Prince. 1776.

Medium: Brush, brown wash over black chalk. Framing lines in pen and brown ink.. Dimensions: 10 9/16 x 13 5/16 in. (26.8 x 33.8 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1961.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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