The adoration of the shepherds

Ysenbrandt, Adrien (ca. 1500-before 1551)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
ca. 1520-1540
Height:
74.3 cm  (29 1/4 in.)
Width:
57.1 cm  (22 1/2 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on panel

    Item location

  • National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC)
    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund[Museum inv. no.: 1978.46.1]

Description

Shepherd playing a bladder pipe.

Iconclass

73B25
adoration of the Christ-child by the shepherds; Mary and Joseph present

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Bladder pipe [3748]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Hand, John Oliver and Martha Wolff. Early Netherlandish painting: The collections of the National Gallery of Art (Systematic catalogue) (Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1986) 118-122 (reproduction 119).

RIdIM record id

139