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
Beautiful (and interesting) representations of sheep.
ReplyDeleteThe 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!