Late Seventeenth,Holland.
The painting, a classically sized oil on canvas (82 X 118 cm), can be traced to Dutch Golden Age landscape painter Pieter Van der Leeuw, 1647 Dordrecht, Netherlands 1679.
In this Italianate view in which a shepherd woos a young girl, surrounded by animals silhouetted against the background of a clear sky with light clouds, he depicts how the Nordic countries saw Italy as a model of Arcadian beauty.
Good state of preservation.
