

| Date : approx. between 1615 and 1622
Sizes : 94 cm x 64 cm Material : Oil painting on wood Acquisition : Presented by Rosalind Countess of Carlisle (1913)
| Item 13 on 22 Flemish and Northern Painting Painting
| |  | |
 | Description |  |
Beside a wooded river-bank, a shepherd rests on his staff. Two magpies have been startled from the tree and a pair of swans is picked out in the evening light. Rubens reused the composition in his larger painting "The Watering Place" (NG4815).
| Item(s) related |  |
| Related article(s) |  |
|