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| Agostino Carracci after Bernardo Castello Erminia and the Shepherd 1590 engraving Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| follower of Annibale Carracci Erminia taking refuge with the Shepherd ca. 1600-1620 oil on canvas National Gallery, London |
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| Domenichino Erminia among the Shepherds ca. 1622-25 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
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| Claude Lorrain Landscape with Erminia in discourse with the Shepherd 1666 drawing British Museum |
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| Jan de Herdt Erminia among the Shepherds 1667 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
from Gerusalemme Liberata
But, while she is weeping, her lamentations are broken by a clear sound that comes to her, that seems (and is) a mingling of shepherds' voices and of rude woodland pipes. She rises and slowly makes her way there, and sees a grizzled old man weaving baskets in the pleasant shade with his flock at his side, and listening to the song of his three sons.
They were frightened at the unaccustomed sight of arms appearing suddenly there; but Erminia gives them greeting and pleasantly reassures them, and discovers her eyes and lovely golden hair: 'Continue (she says) your pleasing task, you fortunate folk, dear to Heaven; for truly these weapons wage no war against your works, against your honeyed songs.'
– Torquato Tasso (1581), translated from Italian verse to English prose by Ralph Nash (1987)
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| Domenico Paradisi (designer) for the San Michele workshop, Rome Erminia among the Shepherds designed 1689-93, woven 1732-39 silk and wool tapestry Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Paolo de Matteis Erminia and the Shepherd ca. 1715 oil on panel Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| follower of Francesco Solimena Erminia and the Shepherd ca. 1725-50 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Joseph Benoit Suvée Erminia and the Shepherd 1776 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent (Belgium) |
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| Jean-Antoine Julien Erminia and the Shepherd 1776 drawing Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Johann Gerhard Huck and Heinrich Theodor Joseph Bislinger after Pietro da Cortona Erminia disarmed at the Shepherd's Hut 1781 etching Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Carlo Antonio Porporati after Carle Vanloo Erminia and the Shepherd 1784 etching and engraving Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Anonymous Artist Erminia and the Shepherd (design for a fan painting) 18th century drawing Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Eugène Delacroix Erminia and the Shepherds 1859 oil on canvas Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |