# Landscape with Shepherds Playing Music

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## Artwork

- Artist: [SAFTLEVEN, Herman](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/saftleven-herman-r2c17b2cdd26a66>)
- Date: 1601-1650
- Technique: Oil on panel, 37 x 50 cm

## Commentary

This landscape, with shepherds playing music together with their herds of goats and sheep, is one of the earliest dated works by Herman Saftleven. It was painted during Saftleven&#39;s formative years in Rotterdam, before he settled in Utrecht in 1632. Before 1630 only engravings by Saftleven are known, depicting similar wood edges with horsemen and goats. &lt;P&gt; &lt;TABLE ALIGN=LEFT CELLPADDING=5 BORDER=1 WIDTH=320 BGCOLOR=&#34;\#99CCCC&#34;&gt; &lt;TR VALIGN=MIDDLE&gt;&lt;TD&gt;&lt;IMG SRC=&#34;/support/gif/listen.gif&#34; BORDER=0 VALIGN=MIDDLE&gt; Suggested listening \(streaming mp3, 10 minutes\):&lt;BR&gt;&lt;A HREF=&#34;\#&#34; onClick=&#34;w=window.open \(&#39;/music1/18\_cent/vivaldi\_recorder\_concerto.html&#39;, &#39;newWin&#39;, &#39;scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=350,height=350&#39;\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return true&#34;&gt;&lt;B&gt;Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for recorder in A minor&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/A&gt; &lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;/TABLE&gt;

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- [An Extensive Rhenish River Landscape](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/saftleven-herman-r2c17b2cdd26a66/an-extensive-rhenish-river-landscape-ra668edc853b3b9>)
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## Attribution

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