JVV 0593
Delft, 1740-1770
The oval plaque has a contoured profiled rim and is painted in blue with three shepherds and five sheep in a hilly landscape with ruins. In the centre is a shepherd leaning forward, resting his left arm on a low knoll. He is conversing with a shepherdess who has raised her right hand. Her left arm leans on the back of a sheep that leaps up against her. To her right, a sheep rests; two others rest in the foreground. The shepherd and shepherdess are watched by a second shepherdess on the left with a staff in her right hand, who is approached from behind by the fifth sheep. The inner rim is painted with flowers and floral scrolls.
Dimensions: length 38 cm / 14.96 in., width 33 cm / 12.99 in.
Explanatory note
The image on the plaque is no doubt based on a graphic example of a setting with shepherds or a gallant scene, such as those frequently depicted in print by Johann Esaias Nilson (1732-1788), Joseph Wagner (1706-1780) among others.
