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Le Berger Content (The Content Shepherd) / John Ingram, [Probably by] [artwork]
- Title
- Le Berger Content (The Content Shepherd) [artwork]
- Artist
- Ingram, John, 1721-?, [Probably by]
- Date Created
- 18th century
- Genre
- artwork
- Physical Description
- Sheet: 17 1/8 x 11 1/2 inches (43.5 x 29.2 cm.); plate impression: 16 x 11 inches (40.6 x 28.0 cm.)
- Artist notes
- after a painting by David Teniers, the younger, painter and engraver, 1610-1690
- Artist nationality
- British
- Artist role
- engraver
- Original artist
- Teniers, David, the younger, 1610-1690
- Inscription
- Recto: top center: (in pencil) 5 ; u. l.: (corner, within plate impression) 23 ; l. l.: (just beneath image) D. Teniers pinx. ; l. r.: (just beneath image) Ingram fecit. ; bottom center: (title, poem, collection, and printer, in French) LE BERGER CONTENT. / Quoique mon bien consiste en mon seul flageolet, / Aux accés du chagrin je ne suis point sujet; / Et si par un amour sincére, / Je pouvois posseder le coeur de ma Bergére, / Je ne penserois pas que le plus puissant Roy / Eût plus de richesses que moy. / Moraine. / Tiré du cabinet de Monsieur le Marquis de Lassé et gravé de même grandeur de l'Original. / A Paris chez Basset, Md. D'Estampes, rue St. Jacques No. 64. ; l. r.: (in pencil) Teniers ; verso: u. l.: (in pencil) Ritti July 1925 45 fcs ; l. r.: (in pencil, upside down) T ; l. l.: (two round stamp marks, one in blue, the other in red, both possibly Customs stamps); blue stamp (around border): POLICE [GENEVAIS?]; red stamp: (around border) MINISTERE DE LA POLICE HAUTE-GAR[…]; interior of red stamp: [DIRECTION / DE LA / …] ; l. l.: (in pencil) C575/533
- Medium
- Etching.
- Condition
- Fine condition. Light adhesive tape stains at upper and lower left corners of left edge.
- Provenance
- Paul Ritti, Librairie Ancienne et Moderne, Paris, 16 July 1925.
- Instrument
- Recorder or Duct flute
- Century
- 18th century
- Subject
- Pastoral
- Miller category
- Miscellaneous Art (large)
- Miller ID
- 0086/Y
- Repository
- Music Division, Library of Congress
Last Updated: 03-05-2014