METPublic domain
A shepherd holding a lion on a leash in the foreground, in the middle ground the shepherd stands in a meadow surrounded by wild beasts, in the background the shepherd is seated on a rock with the lion at his side; from 'Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France, Cabinet Crozat' after a drawing by Baldassare Peruzzi
Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, comte de Caylus
- Date
- ca. 1729–64
- Type
- Print
- Medium
- Etching and aquatint with tone woodblock
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Institution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Object number
- 60.708(3)
- Credit
- Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1960