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The Piping Shepherd
Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem1652
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
In this bucolic scene, a shepherd plays a tenor flute in hopes that his melody will seduce a shy shepherdess.
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- Title: The Piping Shepherd
- Creator: Nicolaes Berchem (Dutch, 1620-1683)
- Date Created: 1652
- Type: Print
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1925.71
- Medium: etching
- State of work: I/II
- Department: Prints
- Culture: Netherlands, 17th century
- Credit Line: Gift of Ralph King
- Collection: PR - Etching
- Accession Number: 1925.71
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