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The Shepherdess

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The Shepherdess, also known as The Little Shepherdess, is a painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau completed in 1889. Its title comes from a southern French dialect, and the painting depicts an idyllic pastoral scene of a lone young woman in peasant dress, posed for the artist with a stick balanced across her shoulders, standing barefoot in the foreground while oxen graze in the background. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Year Created
1889 1
Medium
Oil on canvas 1
Location
Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa 1
Classification
Genre
Painting 1
Sources
1. The Shepherdess (Wikipedia)
  • Introduction, sentence 1
    completed in 1889
  • Infobox, medium
    oil on canvas
  • Infobox, museum
    Philbrook Museum of Art
  • Genre reference
    The Shepherdess, also known as The Little Shepherdess, is a painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau completed in 1889.
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