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ID number: BIRBI-68.1 Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Artist / Maker: Miel, Jan (1599-1664) Title / Object name: The shepherd with the bagpipes Object type: Print
Culture: Flemish Materials: Etching Measurements: 140 x 210 mm; mount: 405 x 555 mm Provenance: Purchased from Christopher Mendez, June 1968, for £20
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A roughly-dressed and coarse-looking shepherd sits on a log playing the bagpipes while three goats rest nearby. In Dutch and Flemish peasant scenes bagpipes often symbolised male sexual desire through a deliberate emphasis on their phallic shape. Figures of musicians in a landscape were usually used to create a pastoral idyll but here that tradition is subverted through the focus on the rustic and lustful figure of the shepherd.
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