A man and a woman with a herd of goats sit under a tree holding hands; the man places a garland of flowers on the woman's head. Engraving by C. van Dalen the younger after C. Casteleyn.

"The precise subject of this pastoral depiction – a shepherd crowning a shepherdess with a floral wreath – is unclear; it is probably a scene from classical or contemporary literature. It was erroneously described in a nineteenth-century sale catalogue as 'Philemon and Dafné', a conflation of the stories of Philemon and Baucis (an elderly couple) and Apollo and Daphne (a nymph transformed into a laurel tree when pursued by the god). It is more likely to represent either Paris and Oenone, like paintings by Pieter Lastman (1583-1633), one dated 1610 in the High Museum of Art, Atlanta (inv. no. 1990.57), or one from 1619 in the Worcester Art Museum (inv. no. 1984.39), or the story of Granida and Daifilo, a subject from the Dutch pastoral play by Pieter Cornelisz. Hooft (1581-1647) that was depicted by Casteleyn himself in an undated painting in the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg (inv. no. ГЭ-7647)."--Wuestman, loc. cit.