Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Ninfa e pastore (Nymph and shepherd) c.1570–1575 Oil on canvas, 149.6 × 187 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna The theme on which the picture is based has not yet been satisfactorily clarified, but Titian raised it to the mythical level…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Jeune berger au repos (Young Shepherd in Repose) 1911 Oil on canvas, 73 x 91.1 cm Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) La Madonna del Coniglio (Virgin and Child with Saint Catherine of Alexandria and a Shepherd, known as The Virgin with the Rabbit) c.1530 Oil on canvas, 71 × 87 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Compare: Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La Vierge au…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La Vierge au lapin, d’après Titien (The Virgin with the Rabbit, after Titian) c.1850 Oil on canvas, 70 × 84 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Compare: Tiziano (c.1488-1576) La Madonna del Coniglio c.1530 Musée du Louvre, Paris
Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre (1824-1898) Le chant du berger (The Shepherd’s Song) 1891 Oil on canvas, 104.5 x 109.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Puvis adapted this composition from a mural that he made for the Musée des Beaux-Arts…
Mantegna, Andrea (c.1431-1506) L’Adorazione dei pastori (The Adoration of the Shepherds) shortly after 1450 Tempera on canvas, transferred from wood, 40 x 55.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Painted when the artist was probably in his early twenties, the…
Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516) Madonna con il Bambino (Madonna and Child) 1510 Oil on canvas, 85 x 115 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The Madonna and Child, dated 1510, is the latest of the works by Bellini in Brera. When he…
Bellotto, Bernardo (1721–1780) La fortezza di Königstein (The Fortress of Königstein) 1756–1758 Oil on canvas, 133 x 235.7 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington In the distance, a fortress sits on a rocky plateau below a sky filled with lightly…
Giorgione (c.1477-1510) Adorazione dei pastori Allendale (The Adoration of the Shepherds) 1505–1510 Oil on panel, 90.8 x 110.5 cm cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Four people with pale skin are gathered to our right in a landscape, their heads…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) The Adoration of the Shepherds 1646 Oil on canvas, 97 x 71.3 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich The so-called ‘Passion Cycle’ was painted for the stadtholder of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, Prince Frederik Hendrik of Orange. The…