Rocky Landscape with Sleeping Shepherd
Medium
Watercolor; framing lines in pen and ink
Dimensions
sheet: 5 11/16 x 8 3/16 in. (14.5 x 20.8 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Carolyn H. Specht Gift, 2007
Accession Number
2007.121
Tags
Art Historical Context
Philip Heinrich Dunker's *Rocky Landscape with Sleeping* (1817) captures the serene beauty of the natural world in a delicate watercolor heightened by framing lines in pen and ink. Measuring just 5 11/ x 8 3/16 inches this intimate drawing evokes the Romantic era's fascination with pastoral idylls, where rugged rocky terrain cradles a peacefully slumbering shepherd amid grazing sheep. Dunker, a German artist active in the late th and early 19 centuries, specialized in such evocative landscapes and rural scenes, blending meticulous observation with a sense of tranquil harmony. The watercolor m...