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The Piping Shepherd
Nicolaes Berchem (Dutch, 1620–1683)
1652
- Medium
- etching
- Classification
- Culture
- Netherlands
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Prints
- Credit line
- Gift of Ralph King
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
In this bucolic scene, a shepherd plays a tenor flute in hopes that his melody will seduce a shy shepherdess.
