Lambert Sustris Landscape with Shepherds ca. 1560 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
Lucas van Valckenborch Summer Landscape 1585 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
Willem van Nieulandt the Younger Shepherds on the Roman Campagna 1617 oil on panel Národní Galerie, Prague |
Moses van Uyttenbroeck Landscape with Shepherds 1626 oil on panel Mauritshuis, The Hague |
Lucas van Uden after Peter Paul Rubens Landscape with Rainbow ca. 1635 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi Landscape with Shepherds ca. 1650-60 oil on copper Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
Gaspard Dughet Landscape with Shepherds ca. 1650 oil on canvas Národní Galerie, Prague |
Karel Dujardin Landscape with Ruins and Herd Boy ca. 1660 oil on panel Rhode Island School of Design, Providence |
Adriaen van de Velde Italianate Landscape with Cattle 1670 oil on canvas Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden |
Johann Heinrich Roos Shepherd's Family beside Ruins of the Temple of Vespasian 1674 oil on canvas Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
Claude Lorrain Pastoral Landscape 1677 oil on canvas Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
François Boucher Shepherd Boy playing Bagpipes ca. 1754 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
Pierre Henri de Valenciennes Classical Landscape with Figures by a Fountain 1806 oil on canvas Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio |
Antonio Basoli Scene in Arcady ca. 1810 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
James Baker Pyne Landscape with Peasants 1853 watercolor Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan |
Thomas Moran The Juniata, Evening 1864 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
Fragments
I
Locke sank into a swoon;
The Garden died;
God took the spinning-jenny
Out of his side.
The Garden died;
God took the spinning-jenny
Out of his side.
II
Where got I that truth?
Out of a medium's mouth,
Out of nothing it came,
Out of the forest loam,
Out of dark night where lay
Out of the forest loam,
Out of dark night where lay
The crowns of Nineveh.
– W.B. Yeats (1928)