The Adoration of the Shepherds

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Artist: The Le Nain Brothers (French, active 1630 - 1640)

Original Dimensions: 43" x 54 5/8"

Location: National Gallery of Art, London

About Artwork: (About 1640) "A group gathers around a manger to adore the newborn Christ. On the right, the Virgin Mary and Joseph gaze reverently at the infant, alongside two small angels. On the left are two young boys and an old, barefooted man: they are the shepherds mentioned in the Gospel of Luke (2: 8–20). This scene takes place in the ruins of a classical building rather than the stable described in the Bible, symbolising the decline of the old pagan world with the rise of Christianity. We aren’t sure which of the three Le Nain brothers – Antoine, Louis and Mathieu – painted this picture, but it is one of the greatest produced by them. Made for private devotion in someone’s home, it combines refined elegance with carefully observed naturalistic detail: compare, for example, the beautiful, idealised Virgin with the older shepherd’s tattered clothes and dirty, wrinkled feet." - (National Gallery of Art, London)

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