Seated Young Shepherd is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French artist Hippolyte Flandrin, executed in 1834, now in the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon, which acquired it in 2012.

The painting presents a naked young man, with black hair, bowed head, and nonchalant attitude, seated at the foot of an imposing tree trunk.

In the background to the left stretches a rural landscape made up of scanty vegetation, while can be seen a flock of sheep with another shepherd lying on the ground, and a cliff, all under a pale blue sky.

In fact, the layout of the diagonals that are created in the panorama guide the viewer's gaze right towards the boy's groin, which is located exactly in the center of the picture.

The virility of the subject is hidden by the cloak, but the sensuality of the work is nevertheless accentuated by the languid pose of the model and by the phallic symbols of the rod and the trunk.