The Dream of the Shepherd (Der Traum des Hirten)

Ferdinand Hodler was a Swiss painter. He is one of the best-known Swiss painters of the nineteenth century. His early works were portraits, landscapes, and genre paintings in a realistic style. Later, he adopted a personal form of Symbolism which he called "parallelism".

The Dream of the Shepherd is an oil on canvas painting by Swiss artist Ferdinand Hodler, from 1896. It depicts a shepherd kneeling in a field while dreaming of nude women.