Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011954Sketch for "The Wolf Turned Shepherd" (recto) Sketch of Hunting Scene (verso)
by Gustave Doré
Inscriptions
lower left, in graphite: 31/4 ; lower center, in brown ink: (No. 2) / "The wolf turned sheppard" / (LaFontaine) ; lower center, in graphite: No 84 [upside down] [84 underlined] ; lower right, in graphite: X
Provenance
estate of the artist (Lugt Suppl. 681a, lower right, in red ink)
Exhibition history
From Block Books to Baskin: Artists as Illustrators. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 13-August 17, 1986). Fairy Tales and Fables: Illustration and Storytelling in Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 4-September 8, 2024).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Gustave Doré (French, 1832–1883)
- Date
- c. 1868
- Medium
- graphite
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 30.1 x 22.2 cm (11 7/8 x 8 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Leo Weidenthal
- Accession no.
- 1956.37
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