Shepherds

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison
Shepherd in Landscape with Ruins
ca. 1810
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

Hermann Blumenthal
Campagna Shepherd
1937
bronze
Kunsthalle Mannheim

François Boucher
Shepherd in a Landscape
ca. 1751
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen

Jean-Antoine Constantin
Shepherd departing from the Ruins of the Forum
ca. 1770-80
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

William Holman Hunt
Study for The Hireling Shepherd
1852
drawing
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Constantin Hansen
Shepherd within Temple at Paestum
1854
oil on canvas
Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo

Jean Lemaire
Shepherd among Ruins
ca. 1630
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Alexei Savrasov
Shepherd beneath Oaks
1860
oil on canvas
State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola)
Arcadian Scene with Two Shepherds
ca. 1535
drawing
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Andries Cornelis Lens
Apulian Shepherd transformed into an Olive Tree
(scene from The Metamorphoses of Ovid)
ca. 1765
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Marco Sammartino
Shepherdess playing Flute
ca. 1650-70
etching
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Jacob Adriaensz Backer
Shepherdess
ca. 1640
oil on panel
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Govert Flinck
Portrait of a Woman as a Shepherdess
1636
oil on canvas
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Joseph-Charles Marin
Shepherd and Shepherdess
ca. 1790-1800
terracotta
Art Institute of Chicago

Hans Unger
Shepherds on the Seashore
1893
oil on canvas
Galerie Neue Meister (Albertinum), Dresden

Carl Larsson
Shepherdess
1888
oil on canvas
(sketch for mural)
Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm

"This is all very well, Sisimithres," retorted Hydaspes, "the kind of thing one might expect from an impassioned advocate rather than from a judge.  But beware lest, in answering one point, you raise another question, a serious one that is far from easy for my consort to answer: how could we, Ethiopians both, produce, contrary to all probability, a white daughter?"

Sisimithres shot him a wry glance and said with a slightly condescending smile: "I do not know what is wrong with you.  It is not like you to criticize me for an advocacy that I see no reason to regret.  We define the true judge as the one who advocates justice.  In the end you will probably think me as much your advocate as the girl's, for, with the god's help, I shall prove that you are a father, and I shall not forsake the daughter whom I preserved for you in her cradle now that she is safely restored in adulthood.  But think what you will about us, for we attach no importance to it.  We do not live to please others: our only goal is perfect virtue, and if our own consciences are satisfied, it is enough.  In any case, the solution to the problem about the color of her skin is contained in the band, where Persinna here admits to having absorbed certain images and visual forms of resemblance from the picture of Andromeda that she saw while having intercourse with you.  If you desire further confirmation, the exemplar is at hand.  Take a close look at Andromeda, and you will find that she is reproduced in this girl exactly as she appears in the painting." 

At a word of command from the king, the attendants went to take down the picture, which they brought and set up next to Charikleia.  This occasioned universal cheering and acclaim: those members of the crowd with the slightest understanding of what was being said and done explained it to their neighbors, and the exactitude of the likeness struck them with delighted astonishment.  Even Hydaspes could hold out no longer in his disbelief but stood motionless awhile, possessed by a mixture of joy and amazement.

– Heliodorus, from The Aethiopica, or, Theagenes and Charikleia (3rd or 4th century AD), translated from Greek by J.R. Morgan (1989)