Eclogue,+An

Date: 1890
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/1959/1959.10.1_1a.jpg?itok=z2haHYkr width="334" height="265" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/an-eclogue-5853"]] || Title: **An Eclogue**

Artist: **Kenyon Cox** Born: Warren, Ohio 1856 Died: New York, New York 1919

Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 48 1/4 x 60 1/2 in. (122.5 x 153.6 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Allyn Cox

Accession: 1959.10.1 || An eclogue is defined as a short poem, often in dialogue form, about pastoral life. Such poems originated with Greek and Roman poets like Homer and Virgil, but gained another surge of popularity during the Renaissance. Cox's painting is analogous to the eclogue poems of the past. It depicts a rural setting where the inhabitants are at leisure in the field - one man appears to be a shepherd. The timeless characters are intended to be allegorical in that they represent meaning that lies outside the specific narrative.
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Cox Biography Kenyon Cox depicted by Saint-Gaudens
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