# Amorous Couple in a Landscape [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [LELY, Sir Peter]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 88 x 96 cm ## Commentary Amorous Couple in a Landscape c. 1640 Oil on canvas, 88 x 96 cm Musée des Beaux-Arts, Valenciennes Pastoral scenes with amorous couples were popular in seventeenth-century Holland. Many of them represents mythological characters, but there are far more in which the protagonists cannot be identified and which appear to be no more than pastoral idylls. Lely's painting is consistent with this tradition. ## Related artworks - [Henrietta Maria of France, Queen of England]() - [Louise de Kéroualle]() - [Portrait of a Lady in Blue Dress]() - [Portrait of Lucy Brydges]() - [Portrait of Oliver Cromwell]() - [Portrait of Sibyl Masters]() - [Portrait of Sir Henry Osborne]() - [Trial by Fire]() - [Two Ladies of the Lake Family]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()