A masterful piece that demonstrates how Agrasot influenced certain figures again and again, even combining them (workshop painting) with different background landscapes, which were his favorites based on a very demonstrated and personal knowledge, graphed papers and an easel in hand of rural naturalism. . Note that this shepherdess can have so much relationship in the composition of the painting, now vertical, with the youngest girl in her very well-known horizontal painting of her measuring 100 × 145 cm The Two Friends (Museo del Prado). In the oil painting, always considered a major work, the model wears the Leonese regional costume, the background with a tall tree that gives depth to the whole, while the goat is no longer focused, like that “friend”, on the viewer, In turn, he was observed by the animal, but he attends to the caresses of his owner, who carries a spindle to weave wool, subtly pulling on a thread, while taking care of the cattle that must walk a little further from the scene framed by Agrasot. .
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