The Pastorella al monte delle Raccolte Frugone sees the protagonist together with a group of sheep and two dogs, in a wide-ranging natural space, created through a touch painting that becomes a tool to bring the perception of reality back onto the canvas. The canvas is an example of how the long French stay in Giuseppe Palizzi's painting favored an interest in truth, understood above all as perception. If, while maintaining a common interest in the choice of subject, his brother Filippo's painting is more oriented towards an objective reproduction of the truth, in his paintings Giuseppe looks more to the overall appearance than to the description of the details. The painting can be placed chronologically among the works of late production, in which the painting, freer, looser and more luminous, seems to be moved by impressionist solicitations.