The image shows a landscape with a high horizon line, featuring distant hills on the left side with a castle and a church with a spire on the right side. Pen-and-ink strokes are intricately detailed, depicting trees and the flowing lines of the landscape. The color scheme is monochromatic with shades of brown and sepia. A group of figures, potentially hunters with dogs, are depicted in motion on the foreground terrain. Beyond them are trees, hills, and architectural structures on higher ground.

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Landscape with Shepherds Driving Away a Wolf

Domenico Campagnola (Venetian, before 1500 - 1564)

c. 1540

Medium: pen and brown ink with touches of pale green wash on laid paper
Classification: Drawing
Dimensions: overall: 22.5 x 36.7 cm (8 7/8 x 14 7/16 in.)
Culture: Venetian
Museum: National Gallery of Art, CG-E
Credit line: Rosenwald Collection
Rights: Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it: Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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