# The Adoration of the Shepherds

- By: Anton Raphael Mengs (German, 1728 - 1779)
- Date: c. 1764/1765
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: overall: 264.16 × 152.4 cm (104 × 60 in.) ; framed: 338.14 × 222.25 cm (133 1/8 × 87 1/2 in.)
- Culture: German
- Credit line: Corcoran Collection (Gift of William Wilson Corcoran, 1869)
- Museum: [National Gallery of Art](https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.195461.html)
- Rights: [Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://api.nga.gov/iiif/9eab2ffc-a0bb-4442-9826-e80ff5a4bb74/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)