The Adoration of the Shepherds

ca. 1700-1748 (Baroque)

32.2 cm 39 cm

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The nativity of Christ in Bethlehem is represented as both solemn and joyous. A strong light mysteriously emanating from the infant illuminates the darkness and alludes to Jesus' role as the "light of the world" as described in the New Testament.The Bavarian painter Stern stud...

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Cristoforo Suave (?) [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [name written in ink on back of original frame]; Don Marcello Massarenti, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1881 catalogue: no. 156; 1897 catalogue: no. 269, as by Pompeo Batoni]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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