The Shepherdess (1889)

Infobox Painting


title = Pastourelle (The Shepherdess)
artist = William-Adolphe Bouguereau
year = 1889
type = oil on canvas
height = 158.75
width = 93.345
museum = Philbrook Museum of Art

"The Shepherdess" ("Pastourelle") (the word is a term for a shepherdess in Southern French dialect) is a painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau completed in 1889. It 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.

See also

* "Young Shepherdess"
* "The Shepherdess (1881)"
* "The Young Shepherdess"
* "Young Shepherdess Standing"
* "The Little Shepherdess"
* "The Goose Girl"

External links

* [http://www.philbrook.org/exhibitions/galleries/page.cfm?page=8 "The Shepherdess" at the Philbrook Museum of Art]