Painting of shepherds and shepherdesses in a wooded clearing, a man in animal skin tending a seated woman with flowers, a sleeping dog in front.

Shepherds and Shepherdesses in a Landscape

A woodland scene of pastoral figures in a green clearing. In the foreground, a young man in a leopard-skin wrap reaches to adorn a seated woman with flowers, while a dog sleeps nearby and a basket of blossoms rests on the rock. Other figures recline and dance beneath a large tree, with an open landscape beyond.

Artist: Hieronymus van der Mij
Date: 1735
Medium
Source: Rijksmuseum
Size: 3270 × 2770 px

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Public domain · Rijksmuseum marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1735.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Rijksmuseum, image license https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

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