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Rembrandt as a Shepherd with a Staff and Flute
Also titled Rembrandt als herder met staf en fluit
Govert Flinck (Cleves, 1615–1660)
c. 1636
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- outer size: depth 11.2 cm (support incl. frame)
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, 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
About this work
Depictions of shepherds and shepherdesses were popular in the 17th century. They show an idyllic world, one full of simple pleasures. Busy city dwellers could dream away while looking at such paintings. Govert Flinck here portrayed his teacher Rembrandt in the guise of a shepherd. The companion to this picture, of Rembrandt’s wife Saskia as a shepherdess, is in the museum in Braunschweig.
