Pastoral Scenes
Brazilian Landscape with the Village of Igaraçú
Frans Post
A peaceful 17th-century view of the Brazilian village Igaraçú, featuring a distant church and figure groups under a luminous sky.
Pastoral Scenes
Open landscapes and rural scenes with calm light and easy rhythm.
Open fields, tree-lined paths, and gentle skies make these landscapes feel calm, familiar, and easy to live with.
Pastoral Scenes
Peasants in the Fields: Hay Harvest
Philips Wouwerman
A luminous 17th-century Dutch pastoral scene capturing the industrious energy of a hay harvest.
Pastoral Scenes
A Stage Coach on a Country Road
Julius Caesar Ibbetson
An evocative late 18th-century scene capturing the energy and atmosphere of travel in the English countryside.
Pastoral Scenes
Bords de l'Oise (Banks of the Oise)
Charles-François Daubigny
A peaceful 19th-century French landscape depicting cattle along the verdant banks of the Oise River.