# Landscape with Shepherdess and Shepherd Playing Flute [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [POTTER, Paulus]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on panel, 67 x 115 cm ## Commentary Landscape with Shepherdess and Shepherd Playing Flute c. 1643 Oil on panel, 67 x 115 cm Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest The symbolism of Christ and Christians as shepherd and sheep is founded on the parables of Luke \(15:3-7\) and John \(10:1-18\). Its translation into visual terms is largely confined to early Christian art. It is rarely encountered in painting after the Middle Ages. The shepherd became element of pastoral scenes. The painting reflects the influence of Elsheimer, or the Dutch followers of Elsheimer. <p> <table align=left cellpadding=5 border=1 width=320 bgcolor="\#99cccc"> <tr valign=middle><td><img src="/support/gif/listen.gif" border=0 valign=middle> Suggested listening \(streaming mp3, 13 minutes\):<br><a href="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/music1/schubert/schubert\_d965\_hirt.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=350,height=350'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return true"><b>Franz Schubert: Der Hirt auf dem Felsen \(The Shepherd on the Rock\) D 965</b></a> </td></tr></table> ## Related artworks - [A Husbandman with His Herd \(detail\)]() - [A Husbandman with His Herd]() - [Cattle and Sheep in a Stormy Landscape]() - [Cows in a Meadow by a Farm]() - [Cows in a Meadow]() - [Cows Reflected in the Water]() - [Deer in the Wood]() - [Diederik Tulp]() - [Driving the Cattle to Pasture in the Morning]() - [Figures with Horses by a Stable \(detail\)]() - [Figures with Horses by a Stable]() - [Four Bulls \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()