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The Adoration of the Shepherds
1650 · huile sur toile (transposition) (oil on canvas, transferred) · Musée du Louvre, Paris
For Christmas · 25 December
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A lamb lies at the front with its feet bound, a shepherd's gift to the newborn, and already what the Child will be. James Romaine reads it so. Everything else is hay and broken wood in rustic tones; the saturated colour is saved for Our Lady's lapis blue mantle. She kneels with her palms together beside the manger; Saint Joseph crosses his hands on his chest; at the left a shepherd lifts his hat. Romaine reads that raised hat and a diagonal beam as pointing to the Christ Child on His straw. Jusepe de Ribera signed and dated a stone at lower right in 1650, and the Louvre records it as the first Ribera to enter its collections. In 1802 the King of Naples bought it for France, in compensation for nine paintings his troops had taken in Rome. The Child lies on a white cloth, looking up.
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)