Little shepherdess

Date: 1891
Medium: oil on canvas
Location: private collection

The painting depicts a young girl standing on a dirt road. She has bare feet, a long brown skirt and a white blouse with a dark corset. She is holding a cane tightly and looking towards the viewer with an expression that suggests thoughtfulness or concern. The background is a delicately painted landscape with hints of mountains on the horizon and soft evening light.

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Bouguereau painted picture Little shepherdess in 1891. Prevailing color of this fine art print is brown and its shape is portrait. This art piece is located in a private collection This image is printed on demand - you can choose material, size and finishing.

William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905). French academic painter. In his choice of topics, he was a traditionalist: he painted mythological scenes and modern interpretations of Classicist themes (with an emphasis on painting the female body). Bouguereau admired Raphael, and even gave him one of his paintings. In his time, he was considered one of the finest painters, even abroad. At the end of his career, his paintings began to seem too traditionalist, with techniques embedded in the past. In some encyclopaedias, his name even ceased to appear. To date, however, we can consider some of his works beautiful and inspiring.