Shepherd and Shepherdess

Shepherd and Shepherdess

Ann Gardner

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The image of a reclining shepherdess is common to a Boston embroidery school (or schools). The inked outline drawing that was filled with embroidery is still apparent at the top of the linen support. Ann Gardner did not complete the picture; at a later date another hand added the long silk stitches in the pond and pasted on the gentleman’s paper face.

The American Wing

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The American Wing's ever-evolving collection comprises some 20,000 works of art by African American, Euro American, Latin American, and Native American men and women. Ranging from the colonial to early-modern periods, the holdings include painting, sculpture, works on paper, and decorative arts—including furniture, textiles, ceramics, glass, silver, metalwork, jewelry, basketry, quill and bead embroidery—as well as historical interiors and architectural fragments.