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The Adoration of the Shepherds
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The Adoration of the Shepherds

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk

Dimensions

Overall: 2 7/8 x 4 3/16 in. (7.3 x 10.7 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Given in memory of Felix M. Warburg by his wife and children, 1941

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Samuel van Hoogstraten

1627–1678Dutch Republic

Studied under his father, Dirck, and under Rembrandt. Was noted as an artist to the emperor in Vienna and as the head of an academy in Dordrecht. Comment on works: History; Portraits; Genre; Landscapes; Still life; Mythology; Religious