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Description: | Signed: yes Description: In this nineteenth-century painting, a young shepherd boy and his dog watch over a mixed group of sheep and cows. Three lonely trees dominate an otherwise treeless landscape, which may have been intended as an oblique reference to the Trinity, or Christ on the Cross, highlighting the Biblical meaning of a shepherd and his flock. | Subjects: | landscape; everyday life; figure; animal (sheep; dog; cow) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Van de Beigh, Lucas (Dutch(?) artist, active 19th century) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8426... | Go to resource |
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