Die Klage des Hirten (Amaryllis),

1866

Material / Technology / Carrier

Öl auf Leinwand

Dimensions of the object

137,9 x 100,4 cm

Displayed

Sammlung Schack Saal 13

Department

19. Jahrhundert

Genre

Malerei

Inventory number

11535

Acquisition

1866 durch Adolf Friedrich Graf von Schack erworben

Stock

Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Sammlung Schack München

Citation

Arnold Böcklin, Die Klage des Hirten (Amaryllis), 1866, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Sammlung Schack München, URL: https://www.sammlung.pinakothek.de/en/artwork/jWLpavEGKY (Last updated on 19.06.2023)

The painting illustrates one of the Idylls written around 270 BC by the Greek poet Theocritus. In his song the lovelorn shepherd laments how the nymph Amaryllis spurned him when he visited her in her grotto. Schack enthused: ‘Who but Böcklin could have painted the garland of flowers above the grotto, the fruit laid outside it and the other gifts like this? These are not the flowers and fruits of this earth: they have blossomed and ripened in a wonderland of the imagination.’