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The Adoration of the Shepherds
1633–1634 · Oil on canvas · The National Gallery, London
For Christmas · 25 December
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Our Lady holds back the white cloth, and the Child lies in the straw for the shepherds to see. They come in bent and barefoot, one already on his knees, Saint Joseph leaning in behind, and above them putti tumble through the beams with flowers. The stable stands inside a ruined temple of fluted columns, which the National Gallery reads as Christianity's triumph over paganism, and the shepherds' figures are taken from ancient statues. A British Museum study shows what Poussin cut on the way to the canvas: a lamb tethered before Christ, a carved frieze fragment in the left foreground. The British Museum calls those removals minor. The Lamb is still here, in the straw.
Sources: The National Gallery, London, NG6277, object page, oil on canvas, 97.2 x 74 cm, about 1633-4 (accessed 2026-08-16) · The British Museum, drawing, museum number Ff,2.163 · Victoria and Albert Museum, 'The Adoration of the Shepherds', after Poussin, Mitchell Bequest 1878
And they came with haste: and they found Mary and Joseph, and the infant lying in the manger.
Luke 2:16 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner)