La petite bergère (Young shepherdess)
by Keiko Minami
- Date:
- 1957
- Medium:
- Etching with aquatint, ink and color on paper
- Dimensions:
- 56.4 × 37.8 cm
- Source:
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
by Keiko Minami
$1,000–$6,000. Common prints: $1,000–$2,000. Key value factors: Minami's Paris career and poetic imagery have earned her a dedicated international following. Bird and butterfly subjects are most popular.
A 1957 etching with aquatint depicting a young shepherdess, titled in French as "La petite bergere." Created relatively early in Keiko Minami's career, this print shows a pastoral figure tending her flock, a subject that places Minami within a long European tradition of arcadian imagery while filtering it through her own spare, tender sensibility. The shepherdess appears not as a robust farm worker but as a gentle presence amid an open landscape, the sheep rendered as small rounded forms scattered across the composition. Minami's fine etched lines give the scene a storybook delicacy quite unlike the bold outlines of traditional Japanese printmaking.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
La petite bergère (Young shepherdess) was created by Keiko Minami (南桂子) in 1957.
La petite bergère (Young shepherdess) uses Etching, on etching with aquatint, ink and color on paper.
La petite bergère (Young shepherdess) measures 56.4 × 37.8 cm.
