Adoration of the Shepherds

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Adoration of the Shepherds

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Nicolaes Maes

Dutch Artist · 1634–1693

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Before studying painting with Rembrandt van Rijn in Amsterdam, probably between about 1648 and 1653, Nicolaes Maes learned to draw from a local Dordrecht master. Subsequently, he returned home to embark on an independent career. By the 1650s he had developed a reputation for painting the intimate life of women and children; his finest pictures capture aspects of Rembrandt's tenderness and intimacy

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Date
about 1660
Medium
Oil on canvas
Culture
Dutch
Department
Paintings
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
caa90eb8-06c5-4137-bc48-58cd21a21809

In this painting, Nicolaes Maes almost exactly copied Albrecht Dürer's 1504 engraving of the Nativity. Maes simply widened the house to the left, provided new poses for the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus, and added the four shepherds that give the painting its new subject. The harmony of blacks, browns, and whites that he chose emphasizes the painting's print origin. He successfully used the fluid medium of oil paint to render such textures as the stable's wooden door, the exposed bricks, and the thatched roof.

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