The shepherd's song

Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre (1824-1898)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1891
Height:
104.5 cm  (41 1/8 in.)
Width:
109.9 cm  (43 1/4 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas
School:
French

    Item location

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
    [Museum inv. no.: 06.177]

Description

In the foreground three women; in the left background a shepherd blowing an aerophonic (wind) instrument (possibly a panpipe, depiction not clear).

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Panpipe [4024]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1

RIdIM record id

3627