Loading...
Pastoral Scene: Shepherds and Their Flock
Click to view fullscreen

Medium

Brush, brown, red-brown, blue, green, and white paint

Dimensions

10 3/4 x 16 1/16 in. (27.3 x 40.8 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Rogers Fund, 1908

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto)

1609–1664Republic of Genoa

Versatile and eclectic artist open to foreign influence which was unusual for an Italian artist of his time. Some of his best-known works are somewhat fantastical. He was court painter at Mantua from 1648. Comment on works: Religious; Landscapes; Animals; Mythology.