Shepherds in a Round Dance

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Shepherds in a Round Dance

Date
around 1500
Medium
Wool and silk: tapestry weave
Culture
Netherlands, early 16th century
Department
Textiles
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
118035

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Late medieval tapestries often use a limited yet contrasting color palette to portray stylized images. The expressions of these figures, for example, are conveyed more by their postures than by their faces. Four shepherds and shepherdesses join hands and dance to the music of a bagpiper at the far right, while a lord and two ladies on the left look on. A dog and sheep amid blossoming plants and trees contribute to the festive pastoral scene in front of a castle.

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Credit line
Gift of Leonard C. Hanna Jr., for the Coralie Walker Hanna Memorial Collection
Provenance
Chateau d'Effiat.

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