# The Piping Shepherd

- By: Nicolaes Berchem (Dutch, 1620–1683)
- Date: 1652
- Medium: etching
- Classification: Print
- Culture: Netherlands
- Credit line: Gift of Ralph King
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1925.71)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/cma/1925.71/1925.71_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

In this bucolic scene, a shepherd plays a tenor flute in hopes that his melody will seduce a shy shepherdess.