# Amaryllis Giving Myrtill the Price [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [POELENBURGH, Cornelis van]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 115 x 146 cm ## Commentary Amaryllis Giving Myrtill the Price c. 1635 Oil on canvas, 115 x 146 cm Staatliche Museen, Berlin In the 1620s and 1630s, Dutch aristocrats furthered a new vogue for particular kinds of history and portrait painting, of 'pastoral' scenes involving the loves of shepherds and shepherdesses in lush, idealized landscapes. In 1635, four painters made a series of pastoral paintings for the Stadhouder's court, chronicling the popular story of Amarillis and Mirtillo, based on the pastoral play Il Pastor Fido \(The Faithful Shepherd\) by the Italian poet Giovan Battista Guarini \(1538-1612\). The series included paintings by Dirk van der Lisse and Cornelis Saftleven. ## Related artworks - [Annunciation]() - [Capriccio View of Rome with the Martyrdom of St Lawrence]() - [Children of Frederick V Prince Elector of Pfalz and King of Bohemia]() - [Figures beneath the Arches of a Classical Ruin]() - [Figures Dancing near Ruin]() - [Italianate Landscape with Dancing Figures]() - [Landscape with Diana and Callisto]() - [Landscape with Nymphs near a Grotto]() - [Landscape with Nymphs]() - [Mercury and Herse]() - [Nymph and Shepherd in Landscape]() - [Nymphs and Satyrs at the Entrance of a Grotto]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()