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A Low Cottage with a Herdsman Leading His Flock

Nicolas Pérignon · 1771

Nicolas Pérignon: French, 1726 - 1782

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A Low Cottage with a Herdsman Leading His Flock

1771

etching on laid paper · National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

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Medium
etching on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 11.5 x 17.4 cm (4 1/2 x 6 7/8 in.) sheet: 19.8 x 24.2 cm (7 13/16 x 9 1/2 in.)
Collection no.
1994.44.4
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By the artist
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Nicolas Pérignon. A Low Cottage with a Herdsman Leading His Flock. Nicolas Pérignon; 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:Nicolas_P%C3%A9rignon,_A_Low_Cottage_with_a_Herdsman_Leading_His_Flock,_1771,_NGA_86116.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: National Gallery of Art

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A Low Cottage with a Herdsman Leading His Flock — Nicolas Pérignon. 1771.

Medium: etching on laid paper.

Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 11.5 x 17.4 cm (4 1/2 x 6 7/8 in.) sheet: 19.8 x 24.2 cm (7 13/16 x 9 1/2 in.).

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1994.44.4. 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.

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Nicolas Pérignon. A Low Cottage with a Herdsman Leading His Flock. Nicolas Pérignon; 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:Nicolas_P%C3%A9rignon,_A_Low_Cottage_with_a_Herdsman_Leading_His_Flock,_1771,_NGA_86116.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.