Landscape with Shepherds

Magnasco employs rapid, gestural brushwork that gives the landscape a sense of immediacy and movement. Contrasting, sharply rendered light punctuates the scene, while the fragmented handling of forms creates a dynamic, almost dreamlike quality characteristic of his later Rococo output.

Although Magnasco spent most of his career working in Milan and Genoa, this particular canvas eventually entered the holdings of the São Paulo Museum of Art. Its acquisition date is not recorded in the available sources, but it remains a representative example of the artist’s late period.