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Two Sleeping Children with Sheep
François Boucher (French, 1703–1770)
1758–63
- Medium
- Etching and engraving on laid paper
- Classification
- Prints
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Credit line
- Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
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About this work
A boy and a girl lay sleeping in a leafy landscape with three sheep behind them. A girl to the right, leans against a mound, with her skirt pulled up, holding grapes and vine leaves. The boy to the left, sleeps with his head in his arms leaning against a mound or rock. The plate is signed and numbered.
