Valuable pictures by foreign and American masters . No. 170SHEEP HOMEWARD BOUND BY HEINRICH JOHANN ZUGEL , rt Heinrich Joliami Zugel German: 1850—-170—SHEEP HOMEWARD BOUND Height, 35% inches; length, 48 inches Coming toward the spectator, their leader close in theforeground, a goodly flock of fat, horned sheep spreadout in a broad wedge, though closely packed together,their shepherd bringing up the rear on the left, his dogaccompanying him. The broad woolly backs, so closelymassed, seem to form a gray and white, fleecy plateau,which is mottled by slanting rays of golden sunsetlight and accente
Valuable pictures by foreign and American masters . No. 170SHEEP HOMEWARD BOUND BY HEINRICH JOHANN ZUGEL , rt Heinrich Joliami Zugel German: 1850—-170—SHEEP HOMEWARD BOUND Height, 35% inches; length, 48 inches Coming toward the spectator, their leader close in theforeground, a goodly flock of fat, horned sheep spreadout in a broad wedge, though closely packed together,their shepherd bringing up the rear on the left, his dogaccompanying him. The broad woolly backs, so closelymassed, seem to form a gray and white, fleecy plateau,which is mottled by slanting rays of golden sunsetlight and accented by the recurrent and projected blackfaces and the boldly-curving horns. Their way is downa hillock in a bleak country, the herbage through whichthey are making their slow way a deep reddish-brown,mingled with green and bits of red and yellow field flowers. Signed at the lower right, H. Zugei., 1907. Purchased from the artist, No. 171SHEEP GOING TO PASTURE BY HEIXRICH JOHAXX ZUGEL 60* Heinrich Johanii Zugel German: 1850—171— SHEEP GOING TO PASTURE Height, 36 inches; length, 48 inches Morning is breaking bright, and a shepherd is settingout with his charges for another day of feeding in brown, with a gray slouch hat, he is seenclosing some heavy wooden doors at the corner of astable sheltered in a grove of birches. His flock, broadof back, and corpulent in their ample coats of curlingfleece, are huddled close together between the trees,around him, while his dog in the foreground guardsthem with a schoolmasters eye. The sheep are of thehorned variety, with black faces. The sunshinestreaming through from the left plays in varying coloron their unctuous mats of fleece, while beyond thegrove the distant country is scarcely yet alight. Signed at the lower right, H. Zugei., from the artist, Munich, 1907.
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