Adoration of the Shepherds
Claude Vignon
ca. 1620–30
Medium
Brush and black and brown wash over black chalk on buff paper
Dimensions
13 15/16 x 9 3/16 in. (35.4 x 23.3 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Guy Wildenstein Gift, 2001
Accession Number
2001.286
Tags
Adoration of the ShepherdsMadonna and Child
About the Artist
Claude Vignon · 1593–1670
Claude Vignon was born on May 19, 1593, in Tours, France, into a wealthy family, and he died on May 10, 1670, in Paris. He received his initial artistic training in Paris under the Mannerist painter Jacob Bunel, a key figure in the Second School of Fontainebleau. Vignon traveled extensively in his youth, likely visiting Rome as early as 1609–1610 and settling there by 1616–1619 among the French ar...