03 — ARTWORK
A Sleeping Shepherd
- MEDIUM
- Marble, height 71 cm
- TYPE
- Mythological
PALETTE
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- FILE
- 825 × 1100 px · JPEG
COMMENTARY
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Vassé's morceau de reception of a Sleeping Shepherd, presented in 1751, reveals a general indebtedness to Bouchardon accompanied by a sentimental slackness. The pose is too contrived to be convincing. The statue derives from antiquethe classical age of Greece and Rome began with the Greek migrations of the 2nd millennium BC, and ended in the West in 476 AD with the deposition of the Roman emperor Romulus Augustulus (c. 475 AD); in the East it ended in 529 AD when the Platonic Academy was closed by Justinian (482 - 565 AD). prototypes which he reduces and frankly prettifies.
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author = {Krén, Emil and Marx, Daniel},
title = {A Sleeping Shepherd by VASSÉ, Louis-Claude},
organization = {{Web Gallery of Art}},
date = {2026-09-13},
url = {https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vass-louis-claude-r2739613868b1a6/a-sleeping-shepherd-r29ee88c75a3298},
urldate = {2026-09-13},
langid = {english}
}ACCESSED 2026-09-13. REPLACE THE AUTHOR FIELD WITH THE COMMENTARY AUTHOR WHERE ONE IS NAMED.
OTHER WORKS BY LOUIS-CLAUDE VASSÉ
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