Jan Saenredam1589
Aanbidding door de herders (rechter blad)
The shepherds come to Bethlehem and find the child wrapped and lying in the manger, just as the angel had told them (Luke 2). An engraving by the Dutch artist Jan Saenredam (1589).
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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.