Pastoral

This 1867 American landscape captures a tranquil river valley with soft light and a sense of vast, quiet wilderness.

This serene 17th-century landscape by Claude Lorrain masterfully blends biblical narrative with an atmospheric, expansive vista.

This serene 1850 river scene by George Caleb Bingham captures a quiet moment of repose under a glowing sunset sky.

A poignant and atmospheric scene of rural labor bathed in the soft, ethereal glow of twilight.

An atmospheric mid-19th-century landscape featuring a solitary rider in a luminous, misty valley.

An atmospheric pastoral landscape from 1839, capturing the quietude of the German countryside at twilight.

This serene 18th-century landscape captures the idyllic beauty of classical ruins and pastoral life bathed in atmospheric light.

A classic Dutch Italianate landscape featuring shepherds and cattle amidst the dramatic stone arches of ancient ruins.

A sun-dappled impressionist scene of life under the olive trees by John Singer Sargent.

A tranquil 19th-century rural scene depicting a village square in Brittany with a stone church and figures tending to geese.

A tranquil 19th-century French pastoral scene depicting a traveler and pack animals on a rustic village path.