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Four men, a boy, an ox, and a donkey crowd around a young woman holding a baby inside a shadowy wooden structure in this vertical painting. Five angels, all with blond curly hair and two with wings, float in a bank of gray clouds above. The men below have tanned skin while the boy, woman, baby, and angels have pale skin with rosy cheeks. All of their faces are illuminated by the bright light emanating from the baby, Jesus, who lies cradled in the woman’s arms. That woman, Mary, sits to our left of center next to the manger, a wooden structure like a crate, overflowing with straw, on which…

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Anton Raphael Mengs (German, 1728 - 1779)

c. 1764/1765 · oil on canvas

National Gallery of Art · Corcoran Collection (Gift of William Wilson Corcoran, 1869)

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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