Thursday, July 11, 2024

A herd

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
~Stendhal


For Art Thursday, sheep and their people (and a wolf):

Ave Maria crossing the Lake
by Giovanni Segantini

Illustration from Pictures from English Literature
by Thomas Cobb

Shepherd with herd by the water
by Heinrich von Zügel

The Right of Way
by Frederick Walker

Feeding time
by Luigi Chialiva

Shepherd boy with lamb
by Giovanni Segantini

Illustration from An Argosy of Fables
by Paul Bransom


1 comment:

Pop said...

Beautiful (and interesting) representations of sheep.

The knight, the woman riding on a donkey, and a small lamb being led along... I'm curious about the story behind it.

The Right of Way painting is most interesting as well.

The one with the wolf is very graphic...and disturbing!