MAKE A MEME
View Large Image
| View Original: | Italian_-_The_Adoration_of_the_Shepherds_-_Walters_44122.jpg (1442x1800) | |||
| Download: | Original | Medium | Small | Thumb |
| Courtesy of: | commons.wikimedia.org | More Like This | ||
| Keywords: Italian - The Adoration of the Shepherds - Walters 44122.jpg The Christ child nude and seated on a bundle of straw in a contrapposto pose receives the homage of a shepherd and his wife who kneel at the right St Joseph stands behind them while the Virgin kneeling in the left foreground extends her left hand towards the child and uplifts her right hand as if to answer the shepherd's gesture of salutation Behind her an old woman advances followed by a youth holding a lantern In the background the ass pulls fodder from the hay-rick and the ox lies on the ground The scene takes place in a ruined and open rectangular hall with courses of stones and ceiling-beams of wood set in perspective On the left of the ruins a column supports the spring of an arch Two landscape vistas open at left and right 2nd half Other date century 15 painted translucent and opaque enamels on silver cm 6 7 5 accession number 44 122 22892 Markus Antokolsky Paris date of acquisition unknown by purchase Markus Antokolsky Sale Hotel Drouot Paris June 10 1901 no 58 A von Lanna Prague date of acquisition unknown by purchase A von Lanna Sale Berlin November 9 1909 no 47 George Robinson Harding London date of acquisition unknown by purchase Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1912 place of origin Florence Italy Walters Art Museum license 2D Italian Renaissance paintings in the Walters Art Museum Italian art in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
