About This Artwork

Gaspard Dughet
French, 1615-1675

Landscape with a Herdsman and Goats, c. 1635

Oil on canvas
26 3/4 x 47 7/16 in. (68 x 120.4 cm)
Restricted Gift of Mrs. Albert J. Beveridge, 1973.669

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, La peinture française du XVIIe siècle dans les collections américaines, 1982, p. 162, no. 26 (ill.), traveled to New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Art Institute of Chicago.

Publication History

Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 1973-74, pp. 24, 25 (ill.)

J. -V. Hantz, "La peinture française du XVIIe siécle dans les collections américaines," Journal de l'amateur d'art, no. 680 (March 1982), p. 20.

Ekkehard Mai, La peinture française du XVIIe siècle dans les collections americaines," Pantheon 40 (1982), p. 153.

Christopher Wright, The French Painters of the Seventeenth Century (London,1985), p. 179.

Marie-Nicole Boisclair, Gaspar Dughet, sa vie et son oeuvre (1615-1675) (Paris, 1986), pp. 35-36, 172, no. 11, fig. 15.

Marc Sandoz, "Essai sur le paysage de montagne dans la peinture française du XVIIe siècle," Cahiers du paysage de montagne et de quelques sujets relatifs à la montagne 1 (1987), pp. 47, 51, fig. 74.

Nicholas H.J. Hall in Claude to Corot: The Development of Landscape Painting in France, exh. cat. Colnaghi, New York, 1990, p. 71.

Alain, Mérot, Nicolas Poussin (Paris, 1990), p. 206 (ill.)

Christopher Wright, The World's Master Paintings (New York, 1991), vol. I, p. 238, vol. II, p. 490.

Susan Wise and Malcolm Warner, French and British Paintings from 1600 to 1800 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1996), pp. 52–4, ill.

Ownership History

Sold Sotheby's, London, April 8, 1970, no. 80, as The Master of the Silver Birch, to Julius Weitzner, London [letters of December 20, 1982 and June 27, 1983 from Brendan Tyrrell, Sotheby's]; sold by Weitzner to the Art Institute, 1973.