The Adoration of the Shepherds

Image credit: Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales

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A pupil of Rembrandt, Eeckhout was born and worked in Amsterdam. The biblical account of how the shepherds 'came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger,' (St Luke II 16) is very terse. In this composition, derived from a Rembrandt etching of the 1650s, the scene is in near darkness, lit only by the feeble glow of a lantern, with Joseph keeping watch while Mary sleeps.
Title

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Date

1665

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 49.5 x W 62.2 cm

Accession number

NMW A 29

Acquisition method

bequeathed by Margaret Davies, 1963

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

NMW, Catalogue Margaret Davies, 1963 No.2 [The painting is here described as being signed and dated (bottom centre): G...b...E....hout.fe.....1665)]

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