1770
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
Sleeping Shepherd Boy and Woman with a Child is a 1770 ink by Francesco Londonio, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This black-and-white scene shows a woman standing under a tree, holding a child. Nearby, a man sleeps on the ground with a dog beside him. A few sheep and a donkey graze in the background, while another person tends to them in the distance. The artist used fine lines to show details like the woman’s clothes and the sheep’s wool, making everything look textured even in monochrome. Next, look up etching to see how artists create these precise, layered prints.
Francesco Londonio (1723–1783) was an Italian painter, engraver, and scenographer, active mainly in his native Milan in a late-Baroque or Rococo style.
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