Tending the Sheep — Charles Jacque | DiscoverArt

Tending the Sheep

1830–1894

Black chalk, with touches of red, blue, and white chalk on brown wove paper laid down on white wove paper

25 × 40.2 cm (9.8 × 15.8 in)

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