Caption
Shepherd by a nymph, print, album page, A naked nymph lies on an animal skin in a landscape. Beside her sits a shepherd with a flute. Behind them a leaping dog by a dead tree. On the left a farmer. This print is part of an album., printmaker: Peter van Liesebetten, Antwerp, after painting by Titian, Italy, publisher: David Teniers (II), Brussels, grantor of privilege: Spanish crown, 1660, paper, etching, engraving, etching and engraving, height 169 mm x width 230 mm, The print was produced after the painting by Titian which is in the collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna (inventory number GG_1825). David Teniers probably produced an oil study on canvas or panel (so-called pasticcio) of all the paintings in the collection of Leopold William of Austria, which served as a model for the printmakers. It is not always clear whether the pasticci were made by him or by his studio. Not all pasticci have been handed down., landscapes in the temperate zone, herding, herdsman, herdswoman, shepherd, shepherdess, cowherd, nymphs (in general), 'Ninfe in commune' (Ripa), A detailed black and white engraving showing a reclining nude woman turned slightly toward the viewer with a cloth draped across her hips, her arm resting behind her head and her legs extended on textured ground. Beside her, a clothed young man sits holding a long narrow object, his body leaning toward her and his gaze directed at her face. In the background a rugged landscape with rocky hills and a distant mountain rises beneath a sky rendered with fine horizontal lines. A tree trunk and branches frame the right side, and a small climbing goat is shown near a broken tree on the left. The foreground includes textured vegetation and a fur or hide beneath the woman's body. The image is bordered by a rectangular etched frame on aged paper.
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Photo12/Liszt Collection
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LZT26B27_445
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