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The Shepherdess

The Shepherdess

William-Adolphe Bouguereau

1889

Philbrook Museum of Art

Tulsa, United States

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Description

painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau completed in 1889

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Medium

oil paint

Dimensions

159 × 93 cm

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💡 Did you know

The title is taken from the Southern French dialect. The painting depicts an idyllic, pastoral scene of a lone young woman in peasant attire posed for the artist, balancing a stick (likely her crook) across her shoulders, standing barefooted in the foreground.