Pastoral Scenes
God Keep Them (Dieu les Garde)
Paul Prouho
A luminous symbolist scene of guardian angels tending to a flock of sheep beneath a golden twilight 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
Haymakers
Winslow Homer
A luminous pastoral scene capturing the rhythmic labor of a 19th-century hay harvest in warm, golden light.
Pastoral Scenes
The Blind Girl
John Everett Millais
An evocative Pre-Raphaelite masterpiece depicting two sisters in a luminous English landscape under a double rainbow.