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Charles Jacque

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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In the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · as of July 2026

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