Jan Saenredam1601
Aanbidding door de herders (middelste blad)
Drawn from the night fields by the heavenly announcement, the shepherds kneel before the infant Jesus and his mother Mary at the manger (Luke 2). An engraving by the Dutch artist Jan Saenredam (1601).
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About Jan Saenredam
1565-1607 · Dutch
Jan Saenredam was a Dutch engraver trained under Hendrick Goltzius whose biblical plates — often reproducing compositions by Cornelis van Haarlem and Abraham Bloemaert — circulated widely across seventeenth-century Europe.