#herdsman

[viagginterstellari]

Dongchuan district, 2019

[amoebasapph]

Kampot, with mama yak and baby yak, Ritoma, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Région, 2023

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Inner Mongolia, China

A herdsman tames horses on snow-covered grassland in East Ujimqin Banner of Xilin Gol League, north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

Photograph: Xinhua/REX/Shutterstock

[illustratus]

Pallas Athena and the Herdsman's Dogs by Briton Rivière

Then drew she nigh, in shape a stately dame,

Graced with all noble gifts of womanhood:

None save Odysseus saw her; for to few

Of mortal birth the gods reveal themselves.

But the dogs knew her coming, and with whine

And whimpering crouched aloof.

[thunderstruck9]

Fritz Erler (German, 1868-1940), Viehhirte [Cowherd]. Oil on canvas, 95 x 96 cm.

[mythologypaintings]

Mercury and Argus

Artist: Jacob Jordaens (Flemish, 1593-1678)

Date: c. 1635-1640

Medium: Oil on wood panel

Collection: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

Description

In 1620 Jordaens first painted Ovid’s mythological story of Mercury and Argus, a tale of the god Jupiter’s transformation of his nymph conquest, Io, into a white heifer. In jealousy Jupiter’s wife Juno sent Argus, disguised as a herdsman, to watch Io, but was foiled when Jupiter dispatched Mercury to lull Argus to sleep and decapitate him. The painting, now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, displayed Jordaen’s flamboyant use of colour, lighting and fluid countour. It was so well-known that Jean-Antoine Watteau reproduced it in his 1721 sign for the Paris picture dealer Gersaint. Fifteen years later Jordaens, by then a leading Flemish painter, produced this smaller replica.

[sheltiechicago]

Inner Mongolia, China

A herdsman tames horses on snow-covered grassland in East Ujimqin Banner of Xilin Gol League, north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

Photograph: Xinhua/REX/Shutterstock

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