The Adoration of the Shepherds
Drawn by the angel's tidings, the shepherds come in from the fields and find the newborn child lying in a manger, just as they were told (Luke 2). An oil painting by Rembrandt van Rijn (1646).
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About Rembrandt van Rijn
1606-1669 · Dutch
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was a Dutch Golden Age painter and printmaker whose biblical works — in oil, panel, and etching — remain among the most psychologically searching treatments of Scripture in Western art.