Pastoral Paintings

Browse free public domain pastoral artworks, paintings, illustrations, and museum pieces.

Oil painting by Wilhelm von Kobell depicting children in a Bavarian landscape

Bauer und Hirtenkinder in oberbayerischer Voralpenlandschaft

Wilhelm von Kobell

La Cervara, the Roman Campagna by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, oil painting depicting a tranquil landscape.

La Cervara, the Roman Campagna

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Genre scene depicting two figures in conversation, oil painting by Clovis-François-Auguste Didier

La conversation champêtre

Clovis-François-Auguste Didier

Lopende koe etching by Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem depicting a cow in a pastoral landscape

Lopende koe

Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem

Three sheep in a pastoral landscape, etching by Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem

Drie schapen

Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem

Landscape scene near Krain by Franz Steinfeld, oil painting featuring lush greenery and gentle light.

Scene near Krain

Franz Steinfeld

A shepherd returns home with his flock in a pastoral scene.

Shepherd Returning With His Flock

Jean-François Millet

Sheep and chicken in a landscape, oil on canvas by Eugène Joseph Verboeckhoven

Sheep and Chicken in a Landscape

Eugène Joseph Verboeckhoven

Landscape with sheep and cattle, oil painting by George William Mote

Sheep and cattle before Leith Hill, Edinburgh

George William Mote

Sheep Grazing by John Linnell, oil on canvas, depicts sheep grazing on rolling hills with dappled light.

Sheep Grazing

John Linnell

Sheepfold on the Hill, oil on canvas by Alphonse Legros, depicting gentle hills and a tranquil sheepfold.

Sheepfold on the Hill (Bergerie sur le Coteau)

Alphonse Legros

Shepherd and his flock, oil on canvas by Alfred Augustus Glendening

Shepherd and his flock

Alfred Augustus Glendening

Shepherd in a field with his flock, oil on canvas by Charles Emile Jacque

Shepherd In A Field With His Flock

Charles Emile Jacque

Shepherds by John Gadsby Chapman, oil on canvas depicting serene shepherds in a pastoral landscape.

Shepherds

John Gadsby Chapman

Shepherd’s Rest by Louis Aimé Japy, oil on canvas depicting a shepherd in a tranquil landscape

Shepherd’s Rest

Louis Aimé Japy

La Montée Au Pâturage by Pierre-Eugène Montézin, oil on canvas depicting hills and sunlight.

La Montée Au Pâturage

Pierre-Eugène Montézin

Shepherds with their flock at sunset, oil painting by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky

Shepherds With Their Flock At Sunset

Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky

Genre scene depicting laborers gathering hay at sunset by Pieter Dupont, oil painting

Hooioppers bij een stad

Pieter Dupont

A serene landscape featuring a cowherd in a pastoral setting.

Paysage avec une vachère

Camille Pissarro

Roman landscape with a shepherd and sheep, oil on canvas by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione

Roman Landscape with a Shepherd and Sheep

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione

Landscape with Cattle Driver and Shepherd, oil on canvas by Jacob van Strij

Landscape with Cattle Driver and Shepherd

Jacob van Strij

A pastoral scene with herders guiding cattle, sheep, and goats across a stream under a warm, glowing sky.

Landscape with Cattle, Sheep and Goats

Abraham Jansz. Begeyn

Pastoral landscape with a farm and clouds, oil on canvas by Eugène Boudin

Un coin de ferme aux environs de Dunkerque

Eugène Boudin

Six Cows Grazing before Country House by Elizabeth Murray, realism

Six Cows Grazing before Country House

Elizabeth Murray

Landscape with Shepherds by Alessandro Magnasco, oil on canvas depicting shepherds with a flock in a lush green setting.

Landscape with Shepherds

Alessandro Magnasco

Landscape with shepherds, oil painting by Ignaz Raffalt

Weite Landschaft mit Hirten

Ignaz Raffalt

Landschap met koeien, schapen en herderin, parchment by Jean-Etienne Liotard

Landschap met koeien, schapen en herderin, gewijzigde kopie naar een schilderij van Paulus Potter, de herderin gekopieerd van een schilderij van Karel Dujardin (recto); onvoltooid portret van een man (verso)

Jean-Etienne Liotard

A serene pastoral landscape painting by Claude Lorrain.

Pastoral Landscape

Claude Lorrain

This illustration by Kate Greenaway features whimsical children in a pastoral setting.

Almanack for 1891 – Frontispiece

Kate Greenaway

Roman Landscape with Cattle and Shepherds by Johann Heinrich Roos, oil painting depicting hills and cattle.

Roman Landscape with Cattle and Shepherds

Johann Heinrich Roos

A pastoral scene depicting young shepherds and shepherdesses in a romantic rural setting.

Rural idyll

François Boucher

Pastoral landscape with sunlight and hills, oil on canvas by Jean-Baptiste Pillement

La Vielle Tour (Pastoral Landscape)

Jean-Baptiste Pillement

Portrait of a girl with a downcast gaze, oil painting by Bela Spanyi

Kleine Hirtin

Bela Spanyi

Cattle grazing in a Dutch landscape, oil on canvas by Aelbert Cuyp

Cattle in a Dutch Arcadian Landscape

Aelbert Cuyp

A goatherd in a blue coat tending to goats near a ruined wall, with mountains in the background and a single red flower in the foreground.

Landscape with a Goatherd

Adam Pijnacker

Pastoral landscape with soft hues, oil on canvas by Paul Madeline

Cour De Ferme

Paul Madeline

Lagernde Herde unter einer Eiche, oil painting by Johann Georg Pforr, showing a herd under an oak tree.

Lagernde Herde unter einer Eiche, rechts Hirte und Hirtin bei der Mahlzeit und Ausblick in die Ferne

Johann Georg Pforr

Etching by Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem of a shepherd playing flute with a woman.

Fluitspelende herder en spinster

Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem

Kühe An Der Tränke, oil on canvas by Joseph Heicke depicting cows by a water source.

Kühe An Der Tränke

Joseph Heicke

Lakeside scene with grazing flock, oil on canvas by Johann Jakob Biedermann

Lakeside near Lucerne with Grazing Flock

Johann Jakob Biedermann

A Capriccio with Pastoral Figures and Animals by Willem van der Hagen, oil on canvas depicting a lush landscape.

A Capriccio with Pastoral Figures and Animals

Willem van der Hagen

Landscape by Jan Wijnants, oil on canvas, featuring lush greenery and a tranquil sky.

Landscape

Jan Wijnants

A shepherd and shepherdess resting under a tree with a lamb at their feet.

Shepherd and Shepherdess Reposing

François Boucher

A horseman on a country lane, oil on canvas by Charles Towne

A Horseman And Figures On A Country Lane

Charles Towne

Cows in the meadow, oil painting by Gerard Bilders

Cows in the Meadow

Gerard Bilders

Landscape near Trzebnica by Adolf Dressler, oil painting of a tranquil natural scene.

Landscape near Trzebnica

Adolf Dressler

Landscape with Shepherds by Jean-François Millet, oil painting depicting a pastoral scene

Landscape With Shepherds

Jean-François Millet

Landscape with Shepherds, oil on canvas by Jan van Ossenbeeck, featuring two shepherds in a tranquil setting.

Landscape with Shepherds

Jan van Ossenbeeck

A serene depiction of nine sheep grazing in a lush field.

Nine sheep in a field

Wenceslaus Hollar

Landscape with a Goatherd, oil on canvas by Adam Pynacker, depicting a goatherd in a serene landscape.

Landscape with a Goatherd

Adam Pijnacker

Landscape with shepherds and their flock crossing the Ponte Acquoria by Jan Asselijn, oil painting

Landscape With Shepherds And Their Flock Crossing The Ponte Acquoria Near Tivoli

Jan Asselijn

Landscape with Staffage Figures by Jacques d'Arthois, oil painting depicting hills and figures.

Landscape with Staffage Figures

Jacques d' Arthois

Landscape with Cattle by William M. Hart, oil painting depicting cattle in a serene landscape.

Landscape with Cattle

William M. Hart

Watercolour by John Buckler depicting a landscape with a manor in Yorkshire

South East View of Burton Agnes, Yorkshire: the Seat of Sir Francis Boynton Bart.

John Buckler

Landscape with thatched farmhouses and figures by Josef Höger, realism

Landscape with Thatched Farmhouses and decorative figures

Josef Höger

A dune landscape with herdsmen tending cattle, oil on canvas by Jan van Goyen.

A Dune Landscape With Herdsmen Tending Their Cattle

Jan van Goyen

Pastoral landscape by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, Rococo style

À falaises (Pastoral Landscape).

Jean-Baptiste Pillement

Etching by Unknown Artist depicting a herder with sheep among ruins

Ruïnes en een herder met schapen

Unknown Artist

A depiction of a shepherdess tending to her flock in a pastoral setting.

The Shepherdess

Jean-François Millet

Landschaft mit Bauernhof by Rudolf Ribarz, oil on canvas depicting a tranquil rural landscape.

Landschaft mit Bauernhof

Rudolf Ribarz

Pastoral landscape with farmhouses and windmill, oil on canvas by Paul Müller-Kaempff

Landschaft mit Bauernhäusern und Windmühle

Paul Müller-Kaempff

Landschaft mit Gehöft, zwei Kühe mit Bäuerin im Vordergrund by Anton Burger, oil painting

Landschaft mit Gehöft, zwei Kühe mit Bäuerin im Vordergrund

Anton Burger

Landschaft mit Kühen by Carl Spitzweg, oil on canvas depicting cows in a tranquil landscape.

Landschaft mit Kühen

Carl Spitzweg

Landschaft mit Kuhherde

Johann Christian Brand

Rococo oil painting by Georg Friedrich Meyer depicting shepherds in a serene landscape.

Landschaft mit ruhenden Hirten

Georg Friedrich Meyer

Cows grazing under trees in a serene landscape.

Cows under trees near Gruchy

Jean-François Millet

Pastoral landscape with sheep, oil on canvas by Jacob van Liender

Landschap met schapen

Jacob van Liender

Landschap met vee by Pieter Plas, depicting a pastoral landscape with cows, unknown medium

Landschap met vee

Pieter Plas

Landschap met veehoeders, oil on canvas by Frederik de Moucheron, depicting herdsmen with livestock in a landscape.

Landschap met veehoeders

Frederik de Moucheron

A hay wagon drawn by four horses in sunlight, oil on canvas by Charles Cooper Henderson

A Hay Wagon Drawn by Four Horses

Charles Cooper Henderson

A Herd With Cattle In A Mountainous Landscape by Hendrikus van de Sande Bakhuyzen, oil painting

A Herd With Cattle In A Mountainous Landscape

Hendrikus van de Sande Bakhuyzen

A hilly landscape with a shepherd and shepherdess with their flock, by Louis Gabriel Moreau, oil painting

A hilly landscape with a large rock and a shepherd and shepherdess with their flock

Louis Gabriel Moreau

A young shepherd offers a flower to a coy shepherdess in a sunlit glade.

The Gallant Shepherd

François Boucher

A cowherd tending to cattle in a rural setting, oil painting by Camille Pissarro

A Cowherd at Valhermeil, Auvers-sur-Oise

Camille Pissarro

Landscape of Le Hameau de Tavel by Pierre Samuel Louis Joyeux, oil on canvas

Le Hameau de Tavel dans le Bailliage de Vevey

Pierre Samuel Louis Joyeux

Southern Landscape With Goats And Shepherd, oil on canvas by András Markó, depicting a shepherd with goats in a tranquil landscape.

Southern Landscape With Goats And Shepherd

András Markó

Italian Landscape with Resting Herdman, oil painting by Willem de Heusch

Italian Landscape with Resting Herdman

Willem de Heusch

Landscape of a farm at dusk, oil on canvas by Valerius De Saedeleer

My Neighbour’s Farm

Valerius De Saedeleer

English Landscape Capriccio with a Column, oil painting by Canaletto

English Landscape Capriccio with a Column

Canaletto

A charming illustration by Kate Greenaway featuring children in a pastoral setting.

Almanack for 1887 – Title

Kate Greenaway

Etching by Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem showing a cow on a hillside.

Koe van achteren gezien en koe op een helling

Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem

Pastoral scene with sheep and a shepherd, oil on canvas by Alexander Keirincx

Le retour du troupeau

Alexander Keirincx

Leader Of The Herd by Auguste Bonheur, realism, depicting a strong leader among a herd

Leader Of The Herd

Auguste Bonheur

Long Shadows. Cattle on the Island of Saltholm, oil on canvas by Theodor Philipsen

Long Shadows. Cattle on the Island of Saltholm

Theodor Philipsen

Two young shepherds share secrets under a tree in a pastoral setting.

Les Confidences Pastorales

François Boucher

Landscape with a farmhouse and gentle hills by Sientje Mesdag Van Houten, unknown medium

Nieuwjaarsgroet met boerderij

Sientje Mesdag Van Houten

Landscape by Jean-Paul Laurens, depicting a serene pastoral scene in oil painting.

Paysage du Lauragais

Jean-Paul Laurens

Landscape with Shepherd and Milkmaid, oil on canvas by Aelbert Cuyp

Landscape with Shepherd and Milkmaid

Aelbert Cuyp

A Rustic Scene by Thomas Hearne, watercolor on paper depicting a pastoral landscape with trees and fields.

A Rustic Scene

Thomas Hearne

A Shepherd and his Flock under the Moon and Stars, oil painting by Samuel Palmer

A Shepherd and his Flock under the Moon and Stars

Samuel Palmer