A Shepherdess
1900
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1900
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
A Shepherdess is a 1900 paint by Helen R. Pirie, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This watercolor shows a woman in a pale dress holding a crook. She stands in a green field with a few sheep nearby. The sky is cloudy and soft. The artist painted this around 1900. She often worked in watercolor and studied in Paris. This piece was part of a book about Kashmir. The artist who ran the school she attended was Tony Robert-Fleury.
The watercolor depicts a Kashmiri shepherdess standing with her feet bare, facing the viewer while holding a short stick in her right hand. She wears her hair in long braids beneath a blue head-dress edged with red, accompanied by a shalwar kamiz in red and blue, along with a silver neck ornament. The background includes fir trees and distant snow-capped peaks.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Helen R. Pirie painted scenes from Kashmir around 1900, focusing on its people and landscapes. She captured travelers on the road between Torshing and Rupal, shepherds on hillsides, and village women in forests like the…
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