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Sleeping Shepherd  1510

by Titian

This work, attributed to the great Venetian painter Titian, was probably made for an aristocratic household for placement over a door. The subject is a pastoral landscape—an idyllic scene of rural life in which nature is presented as a comforting source of physical and spiritual sustenance. Note how the shepherd is cradled by his surroundings, with plentiful greenery for h...
Size: 
27.6 x 127.6 cm
Medium: 
Oil on panel
Credit: 
Courtesy of the Barnes Foundation