The Shepherd
- Date
- 1644
- Material
- Etching
- made in
- Netherlands, Europe
- Classification
- Prints
- Collection
- Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- image: 7 × 10 1/2 in. (17.8 × 26.7 cm)
plate: 7 3/16 × 10 9/16 in. (18.2 × 26.9 cm)
sheet (irregular): 7 1/4 × 10 11/16 in. (18.4 × 27.1 cm) - Credit Line
- The Sidney S. and Sadie Cohen Print Purchase Fund
- Rights
- Public Domain
- Object Number
- 49:1969
NOTES
Idle herders and resting livestock set amid crumbling architecture, rocky cliffs, and babbling brooks—these are all hallmarks of the “Italianate” landscape, a subgenre within 17th-century Dutch landscape art.
Here, Paulus Potter evoked the rolling hills of Tuscany, but his clumsy rendering of a quintessential pastoral motif—the piping shepherd—was likely a pretense to display his exceptional talent for representing livestock.
Here, Paulus Potter evoked the rolling hills of Tuscany, but his clumsy rendering of a quintessential pastoral motif—the piping shepherd—was likely a pretense to display his exceptional talent for representing livestock.
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