Object Details
- original artist
- Bouguereau, William-Adolphe
- graphic artist
- Ferris, Jean Leon Gerome
- Description
- Gerome Ferris etched this print after French artist William-Adolphe Bouguereau’s (1825–1905) New Born Lamb, painted in 1873. Ferris’s print appeared in the catalog for the 1887 New York auction of the A. T. Stewart collection, as a reproductive etching advertising the painting for sale.
- Gerome Ferris had studied with Bouguereau in Paris in 1884 at the Académie Julian, a co-ed art school with no entrance exams and low fees. An academic-style painter, Bouguereau’s work was highly regarded in his day.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Jean Leon Gerome Ferris
- 1887
- ID Number
- GA.14560
- catalog number
- 14560
- accession number
- 94830
- Object Name
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- image: 20 cm x 10.5 cm; 7 7/8 in x 4 1/8 in
- plate: 22.5 cm x 17.5 cm; 8 7/8 in x 6 7/8 in
- sheet: 31.5 cm x 25.5 cm; 12 3/8 in x 10 1/16 in
- place made
- United States
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
- Ferris Collection
- Communications
- Art
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Sheep
- Record ID
- nmah_1002060
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-e11a-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
