The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 18, 2025
Shepherds in a Round Dance
around 1500
Overall: 360.5 x 401.1 cm (141 15/16 x 157 15/16 in.)
Location: Not on view
Description
Late medieval tapestries often use a limited yet contrasting color palette to portray stylized images. The expressions of these figures, for example, are conveyed more by their postures than by their faces. Four shepherds and shepherdesses join hands and dance to the music of a bagpiper at the far right, while a lord and two ladies on the left look on. A dog and sheep amid blossoming plants and trees contribute to the festive pastoral scene in front of a castle.- Chateau d'Effiat.
- Milliken, William. "The Coralie Walker Hanna Memorial Collection Gift of Leonard C Hanna." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 26, no. 6 (June 1939): 84-115 Mentioned: p. 98; Reproduced: p. 102 www.jstor.org
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1939.158