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The Divine Shepherdess (La Divina Pastora)
c. 1732 · Oil on canvas · Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
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Each sheep has a rose in its mouth. They press round her knees, six of them, and she lays a hand on the nearest and holds out a white flower to the rest, a shepherdess in a straw hat with a blue mantle and a lambskin over her shoulders, her crook leaning on the rock behind. Above her, cherubs tumble through the branches, and far off at the right an archangel with a lance drives a wolf from a lost sheep. The Prado attributes the canvas to Alonso Miguel de Tobar, painter of Seville in the manner of Murillo, and dates it to about 1732, from the Spanish royal collection. The image was fixed in 1703, when the Capuchin friar Isidore of Seville had his vision of the Virgin painted to his own instructions, the hat, the rock, the roses, the rescue of the stray; this is that picture a generation on, the shepherdess of souls among her sheep, and every sheep bringing her a flower.
Sources: Museo Nacional del Prado, 'The Virgin as a Shepherdess', P000871; read 2026-10-15. · Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 'The Divine Shepherdess (La Divina Pastora)', M.2008.31, curatorial text by Ilona Katzew; read 2026-09-24.