Rural Love Stories in Art

Depictions of pastoral scenes featuring romantic interactions between figures, set in lush landscapes with villages or nature in the background.

Mutius, an early Christian hermit, in a forest. In his hands a hermit's staff. In the background a village with a stream., Mutius the Hermit Male Hermits (series title) Solitudo Sive Vitae Patrum Eremicolarum (series title), print maker: Johann Sadeler (I), print maker: Raphaël Sadeler (I), intermediary draughtsman: Maerten de Vos, Antwerp, 1583 - 1588, paper, engraving, h 168 mm × w 211 mm
Mutius, an early Christian hermit, in a forest. In his hands a hermit's staff. In the background a village with a stream., Mutius the Hermit Male Hermits (series title) Solitudo Sive Vitae Patrum Eremicolarum (series title), print maker: Johann Sadeler (I), print maker: Raphaël Sadeler (I), intermediary draughtsman: Maerten de Vos, Antwerp, 1583 - 1588, paper, engraving, h 168 mm × w 211 mm