This painting is a sketch for the much larger work presented at the 1879 Salon: nearly one meter sixty by three meters! (Petit Palais - Musée des Beaux-arts de la Ville de Paris, PPP 71).
Also depicting a double female nude in a twilight landscape, Eglogue is like a variation of Idylle. But unlike the previous work, this one, in horizontal format, offers a more prominent part to the landscape, not unlike the idealized Alsatian landscapes whose image Henner systematizes. For this work, Henner drew inspiration not only from Theocritus, but also from Virgil and his Bucolics.
