Aelbert Cuyp – Piping Shepherds – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436062
This is a signed early work by Cuyp, probably painted about 1643–44. Although larger than most works painted by the artist when he was in his early to mid-twenties, the painting shares with them a fluid touch and a palette reminiscent of Jan van Goyen; pale browns and yellows blend together in the landscape, tans and grays in the costumes, and blues in the sky
Cuyp used the same study for the backgrounds of The Kicking Horse (Philadelphia Museum
