Jan Gerritsz van Bronchorst

mannerism

Bronchorst Paintings 1603 - 1661 Dutch Mannerist Painter

Sleeping Nymph and Shepherd, 1645

Oil on canvas, 85 x 116 cm

Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig

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OIL PAINTING: Sleeping Nymph and Shepherd, 1645
This painting is an almost pornographic portrayal of a young man spying on a naked woman with his thumb extended between his index and middle fingers in a gesture that signifies copulation. The nude is portrayed on a beautifully draped cloth against a shadowy background of rocks and trees. It was apparently not the artist's intention to illustrate a theme along the lines of Venus and Adonis or Jupiter and Antiope, for instance, but simply to paint a picture with no specific subject in mind