# The Adoration of the Shepherds

- By: François Boucher (French, 1703 - 1770)
- Date: 1758/1760
- Medium: black chalk, pen and brown ink with brown wash, heightened with white gouache and white chalk on cream laid paper, laid down
- Classification: Drawing
- Dimensions: overall: 24 x 29.3 cm (9 7/16 x 11 9/16 in.)
- Culture: French
- Credit line: Gift of Gertrude Laughlin Chanler
- Museum: [National Gallery of Art](https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.111590.html)
- Rights: [Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://api.nga.gov/iiif/a178a112-f62e-44d6-a50d-868ca88b8f15/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)