The Adoration of the Shepherds
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A lamb lies bound in the foreground: the shepherds' only wealth, given to the newborn, and already what he will be.
Everything else is hay and broken wood, rustic tones in a narrow range. Saturated colour appears only where Ribera wants the eye: the Virgin's lapis blue mantle. A wooden beam laid as a diagonal, and a shepherd's raised hat: both direct attention and devotion to the child. Ribera signed the rock a shepherd kneels on.
In 1802 the King of Naples gave it to France — not a gift, but compensation for nine paintings his troops took from Rome.
Sources: James Romaine, "Jusepe de Ribera: The Adoration of the Shepherds," ArtWay · Musee du Louvre object record, INV 939 · Musée du Louvre object record, INV 939 ; MR 209, Historique de l'œuvre
And they came with haste: and they found Mary and Joseph, and the infant lying in the manger.
Luke 2:16 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), from the project’s own corpus at data/bible_drc.js
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 10,439 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.