The Shepherd's Song is an oil on canvas painting by French artist Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, from 1891. It depicts shepherds lounging and foraging in an arid landscape. The painting - which was inspired by one of de Chavannes' earlier works - is now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York.[1]
Description
De Chavannes used for inspiration of this painting an earlier mural he had painted.[2] Like his earlier work, the new painting possesses what has been described as a dreamlike feel. The titular shepherds were likely inspired by classical sculpture, while the muted colors of the painting were likely inspired by 15th and 16th century Italian frescoes.[2]
References
^Gary Tinterow, compiled with Susan Alyson Stein and Barbara Burn, The New Nineteenth-Century European Paintings and Sculpture Galleries, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993
