Herder en een vrouw
Johannes Glauber
1656 - 1726
Medium
paper
Dimensions
265; 220
About this artwork
collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Art Historical Context
Johannes Glauber's "Herder en een vrouw" captures a quiet pastoral encounter between a shepherd and a woman, rendered as a delicate drawing on paper. Measuring just 220 by265 millimeters, the intimate invites close viewing and suggests the work may have been created as a preparatory study or a collectible sheet rather than a large finished painting. The title hints at the timeless Arcadian themes popular among Dutch artists of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, when idealized rural scenes offered viewers an escape into harmonious nature. Active between 1656 and 1726, Glauber...