Pastoral Landscape with Roman Ruins

A pen and brush drawing in gray wash shows cattle and goats resting on sunlit ground among classical ruins. A herder reclines beside a fallen column and a tall broken pillar rises at right, with a carved stone basin and scattered masonry in the foreground.

Look closer: A small figure stands with a staff in the far left distance, among grazing animals.

Artist

Johann Heinrich Roos

Date

1645–86

Medium

Pen and ink, brush and gray wash

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

3376 × 2197 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Alexandrine Sinsheimer, 1958