The Adoration of the Shepherds

1485 (Renaissance)

40.3 cm 48.4 cm 1 cm

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The Virgin Mary kneels in prayer before the newborn Christ Child, humbly placed on the ground before her. At the left, Saint Joseph glances toward a group of shepherds who have come to pay their respects to the child. The ox and ass, both present in biblical accounts of the Na...

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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1897 catalogue: no. 366, as Andrea Mantegna]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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