# Piping Shepherds [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CUYP, Aelbert]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 91 x 119 cm ## Commentary In this painting a mood of quiet contentment prevails: the boy plays a flute, the man a bagpipe, and a younger boy lies on the ground, while attentive cows and smiling sheep seem to assemble for the music or for the walk back home. Some of the motifs may be derived from the paintings of the artist's father, Jacob Gerritsz. Cuyp. There are known examples of collaboration between father and son in the early 1640s. ## Related artworks - [A Road near a River]() - [Children and a Cow]() - [Domestic Fowl]() - [Dordrecht Harbour by Moonlight]() - [Evening Landscape with Horsemen and Shepherds]() - [Grey Horse in a Landscape]() - [Herdsman with Cows by a River]() - [Herdsmen with Cows]() - [Landscape near Rhenen]() - [Landscape]() - [Landscape with a Hunt]() - [Landscape with a Timber Yard near Dordrecht]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()