A Shepherd and a Rider on a Country Lane
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
- 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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