Young shepherd seated in a landscape looking toward an old man in the lower right, buildings in the background and a tree and mountain at left
Giulio Campagnola|Giorgione
ca. 1509–12
Medium
Engraving (stipple)
Dimensions
Plate: 5 1/4 × 3 1/8 in. (13.3 × 7.9 cm) Sheet: 5 7/16 x 3 1/4 in. (13.8 x 8.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1934
Accession Number
34.38.5
Tags
MenMountainsLandscapesTreesShepherds
About the Artist
Giulio Campagnola|Giorgione · 1482–1515
Giulio Campagnola (c. 1482–c. 1515) was born in Padua, within the Republic of Venice, to Girolamo Campagnola, a noted humanist scholar and writer who may have been an amateur painter. Exceptionally gifted from youth, by age fifteen he was praised as a poet, musician, linguist in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, and skilled in painting, engraving, and gem-cutting, prompting efforts to secure him a positio...