Caption

Shepherd's Scene with a Laden Donkey, Roos, Philipp Peter 1657–1706 painter. General tones of brown against a grey-blue sky with pink clouds and a slightly marked mountain range. The middle distance on the right shows buildings and clumps of trees. The foreground is a genre scene: beside a donkey laden with baskets a peasant secures the load; nearby are two dogs, two goats, and two rams. 18th century, Italy; overdoor. Height 92.0 cm, width 127.5 cm., A framed painting set into an ornate white wall panel shows a pastoral scene with a group of animals and a person interacting outdoors under a cloudy sky. The painting contains a large pack animal with a woven load, several dogs or similar animals nearby, and a person leaning toward the animals. The background of the painting includes distant landscape features and a sky with clouds. The surrounding panel is cream to off-white with decorative moldings and sculpted floral motifs, and the vertical edges beside the panel show carved elements with greenish tones. A strip of blue tape runs along the bottom edge of the visible wall. The prominent colors visible are brown, beige, cream, white, green, blue, and muted orange.

Credit line

Photo12/Liszt Collection

Reference

LZT26A07_016

License type

Rights managed

Available size

100.5Mb (2.0Mb) / 19.5in x 20.0in / 5855 x 6000 (300dpi)

Keywords

Shepherd's Scene Laden Donkey Roos Philipp Peter 1657–1706 painter General tones brown grey-blue sky pink clouds slightly marked mountain range middle distance right buildings clumps trees foreground genre scene beside donkey laden baskets peasant secures load nearby two dogs two goats two rams 18th century Italy overdoor Height 92.0 cm width 127.5 cm framed painting set ornate white wall panel pastoral scene group animals person interacting outdoors under cloudy sky painting contains large pack animal woven load several dogs animals nearby person leaning background includes distant landscape features sky clouds surrounding panel cream off-white decorative moldings sculpted floral motifs vertical edges beside panel carved elements greenish tones strip blue tape runs bottom edge visible wall prominent colors visible beige white green blue muted orange.