A Pastoral Landscape

Francesco Zuccarelli, RA (Pitigliano 1702 - Florence 1788). Oil painting on canvas, A Pastoral Landscape by Francesco Zuccarelli, RA (Pitigliano 1702 - Rome 1788), circa 1730-45. On the left, framed by a group of tall trees, a shepherd herds his cattle. He looks over towards a cow standing in the left foreground. In the centre, a horseman herds some sheep across a stream. Three peasant women are washing clothes on some rocks on the opposite bank of the stream at the far right. There are buildings in the middle distance on the right and at the left, a white church can be seen on the bank of a river estuary which stretches into the distance. To the right, a snowcapped mountain appears on the horizon. Birds fly above in a cloudy pink sky. Stourhead, Wiltshire (Accredited Museum)