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Shepherd Watching His Flock
Image Not Available for Shepherd Watching His Flock

Shepherd Watching His Flock

Maker (Dutch, 1824-1911)
Date1824 - 1911
MediumEtching
DimensionsImage: 15 3/4 x 10 15/16 in. (40 x 27.8 cm)
Frame: 24-1/8 x 17-5/8 x 5/8 in. (61.3 x 44.8 x 1.6 cm)
Credit LineLulu M. Quantrell Bequest
Object number1986.26
Status
Not on view
Description

Like his Dutch compatriot Vincent van Gogh, Jozef Israëls was greatly influenced by Millet’s peasant imagery. In the early 1850s Israëls visited the town of Barbizon in France, where Millet and other landscapists had settled, but it was not until 1870 or so that he began etching. It is only then that rustic scenes start to appear regularly in his work. This etching, published in both England and the Netherlands, is a luxurious collector’s object which includes a bonus remarque, or small marginal image, of a farmhouse.

The Hearth
Jozef Israëls
1883
Shepherd with Flock Crossing Bridge
George Marples
circa 1934
Ship, Barges and Towboats in Harbor
Jozef Emiel Borrenbergen
circa 1915
Zorn and his Wife
Anders Leonard Zorn
1890