sheep

Haystacks: Autumn

Jean-François Millet · ca. 1874

The Holy Family with Saints Francis and Anne and the Infant Saint John the Baptist

Peter Paul Rubens · early or mid-1630s

The Three Ages of Humans

Dosso Dossi

The Golden Age

Joachim Wtewael · 1605

Piping Shepherds

Aelbert Cuyp · ca. 1643–44

Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist

Santi di Tito · early 1570s

Landscape with Moses and the Burning Bush

Domenichino · 1610–16

Saint John the Baptist Preaching

Mattia Preti · ca. 1650

Thomas (1740–1825) and Martha Neate (1741–after 1795) with His Tutor, Thomas Needham

Joshua Reynolds · 1748

Sheepshearing Beneath a Tree

Jean-François Millet · ca. 1854

The Dispatch of the Messenger

François Boucher · 1765

The Adoration of the Shepherds with Saint Catherine of Alexandria

Cigoli · 1599

Landscape with Sheep

Claude Lorrain · ca. 1648

Children and a Cow

Aelbert Cuyp · 1635–39

Shepherds and Sheep

David Teniers the Younger

The Return to the Fold

Anton Mauve

A Shepherdess and Her Flock

Anton Mauve

Twilight

Anton Mauve

Thenot Remonstrates With Colinet, from Thornton's "Pastorals of Virgil"

Virgil · William Blake · Robert John Thornton · 1821

Sabrina's Silvery Flood, from Thornton's "Pastorals of Virgil"

Virgil · William Blake · Robert John Thornton · 1821

Open Landscape with Herdsman, Cows, and Sheep

Thomas Gainsborough · ca. 1785

Wooded Landscape with Cottage, Cows and Sheep

Thomas Gainsborough · ca. 1770

Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness

Diego Velázquez · c. 1622

A View of Vianen with a Herdsman and Cattle by a River

Aelbert Cuyp · c. 1643–c. 1645

Adam and Eve in Paradise

Francesco Solimena · c. 1700

Pasture in Normandy

Constant Troyon · 1852

The Adoration of the Christ Child

Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen · c. 1515

Spring (Ver) from The Seasons

Pieter van der Heyden · Pieter Bruegel the Elder · Hieronymus Cock · 1570

Pastoral Scene with a Shepherdess Milking a Goat

Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem · c. 1665–c. 1670

Retable and Frontal of the Life of Christ and the Virgin

Spanish · 1396

Crèche

Neapolitan · 1725–75, with later additions

La Fontaine renewed, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, October 10, 1867

Arnaud de Vresse · Destouches · Honoré Daumier · October 10, 1867

Vignette with two sheep, Vignette with two cows in a pool, and Vignette of a wood-gatherer, in: The New York Drawing Book, Containing a Series of Original Designs and Sketches of American Scenery, No. 2

Francis & Seymour Palmer · Frances Flora Bond Palmer · W. H. Graham · 1847

Landscape with Sheep, Picardy

Harry Thompson-Lalande · Late 19th century

The Holy Family with Elizabeth and the infant Saint John the Baptist, the Virgin nursing the infant Christ

Joannes Moerman · Peter Paul Rubens · Jan (Hans) Witdoeck · ca. 1635–42

Saints John the Baptist and Catherine of Alexandria

Workshop of Paolo Veneziano · c. 1350

Annunciation to the Shepherds

After Jacopo Bassano · c. 1710

Tobias and the Angel

Pieter Mulier, II · After 1684