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Piping Shepherds, Aelbert Cuyp, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Piping ShepherdsAelbert Cuyp (1620–1691) · ca. 1643–44The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Public domain (The Met Open Access, CC0) · the museum’s record

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Piping Shepherds

Aelbert Cuyp, 1620–1691, painted ca. 1643–44

Held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and released as Public domain (The Met Open Access, CC0). It is here to paint after: give us your own line and the painters take its brushwork, its palette and its light, and none of its subject.

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The credit: Every painting made after it carries “after Aelbert Cuyp (1620–1691), Piping Shepherds, The Metropolitan Museum of Art” on its plaque, and on the share page.
The licence: Public domain (The Met Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it. The credit travels with it everywhere we show it, and it is never enlarged.

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