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A Shepherd and a Rider on a Country Lane

ca. 1823
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 805
In the 1820s, the countryside of France began to rival Italy for the attention of its painters, who drew from a tradition with strong roots in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Dutch and Flemish art. This scene may be an early depiction of the Forest of Fontainebleau. While the landscape retains all the freshness of a plein-air study, the figures are stock characters from Leprince’s repertory.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: A Shepherd and a Rider on a Country Lane
  • Artist: Auguste-Xavier Leprince (French, Paris 1799–1826 Nice)
  • Date: ca. 1823
  • Medium: Oil on paper, laid down on canvas
  • Dimensions: 12 7/8 x 15 1/2 in. (32.6 x 39.5 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: The Whitney Collection, Promised Gift of Wheelock Whitney III, and Purchase, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. McVeigh, by exchange, 2003

  • Object Number: 2003.42.40
  • Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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