The Sleeping Shepherd
A shepherd in a red jacket sleeps stretched on the ground at right, a small dog beside him, while sheep rest and graze in a wooded landscape. A tall ram stands at center beneath a large tree, with a distant hazy mountain and cloudy sky behind.
- Artist
- Jan van der Meer (II)
- Date
- 1678
- Medium
- Source
- Rijksmuseum
- Size
- 3746 × 2838 px
Public domain · Rijksmuseum marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1678.
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/)
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