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The Shepherdess

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Year
  
1889 (1889)

Created
  
1889

Media
  
Canvas, Oil paint

Medium
  
oil on canvas

Genre
  
Portrait

Support
  
Canvas

The Shepherdess httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthu

Dimensions
  
158.75 cm × 93.35 cm (62.50 in × 36.75 in)

Location
  
Philbrook Museum of Art

Artist
  
William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Periods
  
Academic art, Modern art, Realism

Similar
  
William-Adolphe Bouguereau artwork, Other artwork

The Shepherdess (French: Pastourelle) is a painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau completed in 1889. The title is taken from the Southern French dialect. The painting depicts an idyllic, pastoral scene of a lone young woman in peasant attire posed for the artist, her arms balancing a stick across her shoulders, standing barefooted in the foreground. In the background are oxen grazing in the field. It is one of many paintings by Bouguereau depicting shepherdesses, including one of the same name created in 1881.

The subject is a model employed by Bouguereau for this and other paintings, including The Bohemian.

It is currently in the permanent collection at the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, where it has become an emblematic image for the museum. It was the central image of a travelling exhibition about Bouguereau and his students that Philbrook created in 2006.

References

The Shepherdess Wikipedia