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A shepherd holding a lion on a leash in the foreground, in the middle ground the shepherd stands in a meadow surrounded by wild beasts, in the background the shepherd is seated on a rock with the lion at his side; from 'Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France, Cabinet Crozat' after a drawing by Baldassare Peruzzi
Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, comte de Caylus
- Medium
- Etching and aquatint with tone woodblock
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 20 7/8 × 15 1/4 in. (53 × 38.8 cm) Plate: 12 15/16 × 8 1/16 in. (32.8 × 20.5 cm)
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Classification
- Prints
- Dated
- ca. 1729–64
- Pixels
- 1462 × 2328
- SHA-256
- 066156a772c63a62…
- Record
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Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, comte de Caylus. A shepherd holding a lion on a leash in the foreground, in the middle ground the shepherd stands in a meadow surrounded by wild beasts, in the background the shepherd is seated on a rock with the lion at his side; from 'Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France, Cabinet Crozat' after a drawing by Baldassare Peruzzi, ca. 1729–64. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.