Description
Images made for Roman villas often romanticized the rural life of herdsmen and shepherds. This delicately carved relief depicts a herdsman leading two yoked oxen past a stylized tree.
Conservation
Date
Description
Narrative
1/01/1959
Treatment
cleaned
7/20/1970
Treatment
cleaned
1/01/1992
Technical Report
other
Provenance
Arthur Sambon, Sale, Paris, 1928, no. 57, Plate XVI; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1930, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
