A Pastoral Landscape with Shepherds Playing a Viola and Panpipes 1497

by Albrecht Dürer

Medium:
Watercolour and gouache heightened with pen and ink and gold, pasted back onto page 1 of Aldus Manutius' first edition of Theocritus' Idylls and other texts (Venice, February 1496) Dimensions: Page size: 31 x 20.3 cm (12 3/16 x 8 in.) Overall book size: (book closed): 32.4 x 21.6 cm (12 3/4 x 8 1/2 in.)

Credit:: Courtesy of National Gallery of Art, Washington
More:: http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/Collection/art-object-page.75783.html

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