The River Stour at Dedham has long had great resonance for landscape painters; John Constable painted many of his greatest, and best-known, works there. This pastoral scene by Walter Bayes consciously recalls Constable's scenes. All indications of modernity and the passage of time have been effaced; the small figures standing among the trees have been painted indistinctly so that their costume shows no sign of any particular period.
![[Der schlafende Hirte; The Sleeping Herdsman; Le vieillard endormi], Rembrandt, 1644](https://diglib.hab.de/varia/haum/rembrandt-v3-4645/max/000001.jpg)
![[Die Anbetung der Hirten mit der Lampe; The Adoration of the Shepherds with the Lamp; La Nativité], Rembrandt, 1654](https://diglib.hab.de/varia/haum/rembrandt-ab3-0054/max/000001.jpg)
![[Landschaft mit trinkender Kuh; Landscape with a Cow Drinking; L'abreuvoir de la vache], Rembrandt, 1650](https://diglib.hab.de/varia/haum/rembrandt-ab3-0268/max/000001.jpg)
![[Die Anbetung der Hirten mit der Lampe; The Adoration of the Shepherds with the Lamp; La Nativité], Rembrandt, 1654](https://diglib.hab.de/varia/haum/rembrandt-v3-4537/max/000001.jpg)
