
Cleveland Museum of Art
The Piping Shepherd
Nicolaes Berchem
- Date
- 1652
- Medium
- etching
- Culture
- Netherlands
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
In this bucolic scene, a shepherd plays a tenor flute in hopes that his melody will seduce a shy shepherdess.
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