Portrait of a Lady of the Court as a Shepherdess  1628

[i]Workshop of Gerrit van Honthorst[/i] [br]The romantic fantasy of shepherds and shepherdesses living in the wilds of Arcadia in Greece was a favored theme in ancient poetry that was revived in Renaissance Italy and around 1600 in the Netherlands. In the 1620s, Honthorst and Cornelis van Poelenburch created a fashion in elite circles for portraying young people in this wa...