A Bull and Two Sheep
<p>Pierre Lélu was a painter and prolific amateur etcher active in late-18th-century Paris. Several of his prints survive in multiple states, each with dramatically different effects of line and color. He imagined this bucolic animal subject in the mode of the Baroque Dutch painter Paulus Potter. It began as a pure etching, to which the artist added aquatint shading and burnished highlights in later states.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1761
- Dimensions
- Plate: 18.5 × 25.6 cm (7 5/16 × 10 1/8 in.); Sheet: 23.3 × 30.3 cm (9 3/16 × 11 15/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Pierre Lelu
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Pierre Lelu
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Cupid and Psyche
1793 · Etching, with black chalk, graphite, and estompe on ivory laid paper
The Household Peasant
1784 · Etching on ivory wove paper
Fantasy on the Villa Medici with Fountains
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A Bull and Two Sheep
1761 · Etching and aquatint on ivory wove paper
A Bull and Two Sheep
1761 · Etching and aquatint on ivory wove paper
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- Pierre Lelu
- Year
- 1761
- Dimensions
- Plate: 18.5 × 25.6 cm (7 5/16 × 10 1/8 in.); Sheet: 23.3 × 30.3 cm (9 3/16 × 11 15/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1761-102224
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
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- Status
- verified