Title: 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
Object type: Print
Date: ca. 1729–64
Artist:  Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, comte de Caylus 
Artist bio: French, Paris 1692–1765 Paris
Artist nationality: French
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Etching and aquatint with tone woodblock
Dimensions: Sheet: 20 7/8 × 15 1/4 in. (53 × 38.8 cm)
Plate: 12 15/16 × 8 1/16 in. (32.8 × 20.5 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1960
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY