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Joachim Antonisz. Wtewael (1566 - 1638)

The Adoration of the Shepherds

A770; oil on canvas; 75 x 97 cm

Prov: Lord Kirnaird

Purchased (France Fund), 1948; WA1948.100

White 1999, p. 172

The Adoration of the Shepherds was one of Wtewael's favourite subjects. This version has been dated c.1606 by comparison with a dated Annunciation to the Shepherdsin the Saul Steinberg Collection, New York.

Information derived from the Ashmolean Museum's Complete Illustrated Catalogue of Paintings.