Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011083A Seated Shepherdess
by Jules Dupré
About the Artwork
Unique for Jules Dupré, who mostly recorded landscapes, this sheet features a woman holding a crook for herding sheep. Many middle-class collectors at the time were eager for images of rural life while cities grew and factories proliferated. Cleveland’s drawing forms a pair with a similar depiction of a male shepherd, also created using wetted and burnished white pastel on earthy brown paper. It is one of numerous objects in these galleries formerly owned by Clevelander Muriel Butkin, a passionate scholar and collector of French art from the 1800s who bequeathed nearly 300 drawings to the museum.
Inscriptions
Signed, lower right, in black chalk: Jules Dupre
Provenance
1889 - 1890: Estate of the artist 1890: (his posthumous sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, January 30, 1890, probably no. 126) 1929: (sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, January 31, 1929, no. 13) 1977: (sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, New York, May 26, 1977, no. 29, sold to Shepherd Gallery, New York) 1977: (Shepherd Gallery, New York, sold to Muriel Butkin, Shaker Heights, OH) 1977-2008: Muriel Butkin [1916-2008], Shaker Heights, OH, by bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH 2009-: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
Pure Color: Pastels from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 19, 2016-March 19, 2017). Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 20-June 11, 2023).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jules Dupré (French, 1811–1889)
- Date
- c. 1836
- Medium
- black chalk with white heightening and white pastel on brown paper laid down on board
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 61.1 x 47.6 cm (24 1/16 x 18 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Bequest of Muriel Butkin
- Accession no.
- 2009.314
More by Jules Dupré in museum collections
Open-access museum record · AT-00011083
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