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Landscape with Shepherds and Shepherdesses
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Allegorical representation with shepherds and shepherdesses in a landscape. They make music, dance, get married, and work the land. On the left in the background Pegasus. On the right in the background mourning women around a monument. In the sky two putti with a beehive (a symbol of eloquence) and two putti with a scroll bearing a motto in Latin. In the margin a six-line poem, in two columns, in French.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineLandschap met herders en herderinnen. 1718. Bernard Picart. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.