Seated old shepard gesturing towards the sky and speaking to nude male surrounded by tools of measurement
ca. 1500–1600
Medium
Engraving; Copy
Dimensions
Sheet: 2 7/8 in. × 2 in. (7.3 × 5.1 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1963
Accession Number
63.579.4
Tags
Art Historical Context
This delicate engraving, titled *Seated Old Shepherd Gesturing Towards the Sky and Speaking toude Male Surrounded by Tools of Measurement*, is a-scale copy (2 7/8 × 2 in.) after a design attributed to the High Renaissance master Raphael (Raffaellozio da Urbino), though executed anonymously around 1500–1600. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department, it captures a poignant pastoral dialogue: an elderly shepherd, seated amid trees, points heavenward while addressing a nude youth encircled by instruments of weights and measures—evoking themes of wisdom, nature, and...