Two Nude Shepherds
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 8 1/4 x 6 1/8 in. (21 x 15.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917
Accession Number
17.50.18-149
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Art Historical Context
"Two Nude Shepherds is a delicate 17th-century engraving by Lucas Vorsterman I, a skilled Flemish printmaker, based on a design by the Renaissance Mannerist master ParmigianinoGirolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola). Measuring just 8¼ × 6⅛ inches (21 × 15.5 cm), this sheet captures two graceful nude figures—a shepherd and shepherdess—in a pastoral embrace, evoking the idyllic landscapes of classical mythology. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department, it was acquired in 1917 through the Joseph Pulitzer Bequest. Engravings like this were revolutionary in their time, ...