The Shepherd's Song
The Met
Artist: Pierre Puvis de Chavannes(French, Lyons 1824–1898 Paris)
Date: 1891
Department: European Paintings
Classification: Paintings
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 41 1/8 x 43 1/4 in. (104.5 x 109.9 cm)
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1906
Visual Descriptions
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Brief Description
Three women and a man in a rocky coastal landscape with a distant sea and grazing goats
Detailed Description
A muted, rocky coastal landscape is depicted under a partly cloudy sky. In the foreground, three women are positioned across the lower half of the scene. On the far right, a woman with light skin and dark hair, draped in a reddish-brown garment and a pale yellow shawl, walks towards the left, holding a dark, two-handled jug in her right hand. Her left arm is extended forward. To her left, a second woman with light skin and dark hair kneels on the ground, wearing a yellow dress and a white head covering and drape. She looks down at a dark pot filled with blue berries, placed on the ground in front of her. Her left hand is near her face. Standing between these two women, slightly behind the kneeling figure, is a third woman with reddish-brown hair, bare-chested and draped in a light blue-grey cloth around her lower body. She leans her right arm on a light-colored rock and gazes upwards and to the left. In the midground, on the left side of the composition, a man with light skin and dark hair sits on a rocky outcrop, facing right. He wears a white loincloth and holds a long staff. Below him, two dark goats graze on the sparse vegetation. A small green bush is visible in the lower left foreground, and a few small red flowers dot the sandy ground near the kneeling woman. The background features towering, light blue-grey cliffs that frame a calm, dark blue sea. Above the sea, a pale blue sky is dotted with soft white clouds. The overall palette is subdued, with earthy tones dominating the landscape and soft blues and yellows for the sky and drapery.
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