The Dream of the Shepherd (Der Traum des Hirten)
Purchase, European Paintings Funds, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, Charles and Jessie Price Gift, funds from various donors, and Bequests of Collis P. Huntington and Isaac D. Fletcher, by exchange, 2013
Catalogue
- Year
- 1896
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 98 1/2 × 51 3/8 in. (250.2 × 130.5 cm)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Artist
- Ferdinand Hodler
Artist
Painting
Ferdinand Hodler was a Swiss painter. He is one of the best-known Swiss painters of the nineteenth century. His early works were portraits, landscapes, and genre paintings in a realistic style. Later, he adopted a personal form of Symbolism which he called "parallelism".
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Record
Verified by WattsOS- Artist
- Ferdinand Hodler
- Year
- 1896
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 98 1/2 × 51 3/8 in. (250.2 × 130.5 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1896-007765
Source
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified