Scenes representing times of day or the seasons were frequently used to thematically decorate rooms, and were suitable subjects for suites of prints. This example depicting a young shepherdess avoiding the noonday sun is from a set that also features morning, afternoon, and evening. Each scene portrays the bucolic life of a shepherd or shepherdess in a rural landscape. Demarteau colored the prints to appear like drawings made with black and red chalk with wash, similar to boucher’s the departure of jacob nearby. Date: 0000. Place of creation: France, 18th century. Dimensions: Sheet: 27 x 35.4 cm (10 5/8 x 13 15/16 in.). Medium: chalk, etching and engraving. Collection: Cleveland Museum of Art. Clevelandart 1987.200
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