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In this painting a mood of quiet contentment prevails: the boy plays a flute, the man a bagpipe, and a younger boy lies on the ground, while attentive cows and smiling sheep seem to assemble for the music or for the walk back home. Some of the motifs may be derived from the paintings of the artist's father, Jacob Gerritsz. Cuyp. There are known examples of collaboration between father and son in the early 1640s.
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