# Shepherdess [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BIJLERT, Jan van]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 99 x 77 cm ## Commentary The artist was a prolific painter of pastoral scenes, all representing shepherds and shepherdesses as single half-length figures or in narrative representations. The present painting shows a shepherdess, half-length, wearing a large blue hat decorated with an iris and holding a staff. It is a characteristic example of what is described as Utrecht Caravaggism. The painting has a pendant representing a shepherd with a flute \(private collection\). ## Related artworks - [A Woman Holding Pancakes]() - [Allegory of the Sense of Smell]() - [Bagpipe Player]() - [Girl Teasing a Cat]() - [Music-making Company]() - [Musical Company]() - [Portrait of an Unknown Man]() - [Shepherd Holding a Flute]() - [The Concert]() - [Ulysses and Circe]() - [Venus and Amor and an Old Woman]() - [Virgin and Child]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()