Shepherdess — About This Work
Winslow Homer, c. 1878
About the Work
The shepherdess stands with her crook on a lightly worked sheet. Homer gives the upright figure a clear presence while leaving space around her, allowing posture and the long implement to organise the image.
The museum connects this pastoral subject with his stay at Houghton Farm near Mountainsville in the summer of 1878. That setting places the drawing within a particular period of looking at rural figures.
Charcoal, brown wash and white chalk offer different levels of emphasis. The drawing remains open enough for their differences to be visible, preserving the balance between a recognisable figure and the economy of the working sheet.
The Work
Artist: Winslow Homer
Title: Shepherdess
Date: c. 1878
Medium: Charcoal with brush and brown wash, heightened with white chalk; framing lines in graphite
Recorded dimensions: 25.8 × 41.8 cm (W × H)
Collection: Cleveland Museum of Art
Accession number: 1924.489
Print & Presentation
Palatine presentation: 40 × 50 cm Classic Frame, portrait.
The complete artwork is reproduced at its recorded scale, subject only to negligible whole-pixel rounding, without enlargement, reduction, cropping or distortion. The surrounding white presentation area accommodates the artwork within the framed presentation and is incorporated into the print rather than added as a separate mount.
Frame finishes: Black, White or Natural.
Paper & glazing: Enhanced Matte + Perspex; or Enhanced Matte + Moth-Eye.
Why Original Scale?
Most art-print shops offer the same image in a choice of Small, Medium and Large sizes. We take a different approach. For each edition, we begin with the recorded dimensions of the original work and reproduce the complete image at that scale, preserving its proportions and avoiding enlargement, reduction, cropping or distortion.
Source: Image: The Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0. Gift of Dr. J. A. Vincent. 1924.489.
Care: Display in a dry interior away from prolonged direct sunlight and sources of moisture.
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