Artwork
A Pastoral Landscape with Shepherds Playing a Viola and Panpipes
A Pastoral Landscape with Shepherds Playing a Viola and Panpipes is a gouache drawing by the Northern Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer. It dates from 1496 and is held in the collection of the National Gallery of Art.
About this work
Overview
A Pastoral Landscape with Shepherds Playing a Viola and Panpipes is a drawing created by Albrecht Dürer in 1496, executed in watercolor, gouache, pen, and ink, with gold accents.
Subject & Meaning
The drawing depicts a serene landscape with shepherds engaged in music, playing a viola and panpipes, conveying a sense of peaceful enjoyment.
Technique & Style
Dürer employed a combination of watercolor and gouache, heightened with pen and ink and gold, to achieve the desired effect, showcasing his skill with mixed media.
History & Provenance
The artwork is currently housed at the National Gallery of Art, representing a rare example of a watercolor from the late 15th century.
Artist & collection
Artist
Albrecht Dürer spent his life in Nuremberg, a busy German city where artists traded prints like currency.
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Offering of the Paschal Lamb from the German Bible published by Anton Koberger, Nürnberg
page from the Holy Bible in Bohemian
Saint Sebaldus Standing on a Column
Song to the Madonna
Christ as Salvator Mundi
Title Page to Urbium Praecipuarum Totius Mundi
The Way of Salvation
Manuscript Leaf from a Book of Hours
Christ as the Man of Sorrows
Saint John
Exhortation Against Avarice
Genealogical Page; published in the Nuremberg Chronicle by Hartmann Schedel