1. THE PASTORAL
TRADITION

2. Topics To Cover:
An Overview Of The Pastoral Tradition
The Elegy
Pastoral History
How We View Pastoral Poetry
Pastoral Art

3. F R E NCH A ND ITA L IA N PA INTING O F TH E 18TH CE NTU R Y

4. Claude Lorrain (also Claude Gellée or Le Lorrain) (Lorraine, c. 1600 – Rome, 21 or 23 November
1682), a French artist of the Baroque era who was active in Italy, is admired for his achievements in
landscape painting.

5. Jean Siméon Chardin
French, 1699 - 1779
Still Life with Game, c. 1760/1765
oil on canvas, 49.6 x 59.4 cm (19 1/2 x 23 3/8 in.)
Samuel H. Kress Collection

6. quot;Et in Arcadia egoquot; is a Latin phrase that most famously appears as the title of two paintings by
Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665)

7. Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Diana and Endymion, c. 1753/1755
Timken Collection
1960.6.2

8. The Fête champêtre (Pastoral Concert) attributed to Giorgione

9. François Boucher
detail: Madame Bergeret, 1746
Samuel H. Kress Collection
1946.7.3

10. Th e R e p r e s e n tative s O f Th e Pas tor al In A r t

11. Jean-Marc Nattier
Madame de Caumartin as Hebe, 1753
Samuel H. Kress Collection
1946.7.13

12. Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater
French, 1695 - 1736
Fête Champêtre, c. 1730
oil on canvas, 74.5 x 92.5 cm (29 5/16 x 36 7/16 in.)
Samuel H. Kress Collection
1946.7.19

13. Watteau (in his Fêtes galantes)

14. Antoine Watteau
Italian Comedians, probably 1720
Samuel H. Kress Collection
1946.7.9

15. François Boucher
The Love Letter, 1750
Timken Collection
1960.6.3

18. Oliver Goldsmith

19. THE PASTORAL
TRADITION
THE END