Sujet

The Adoration of the Shepherds by Velasquez, 1854. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

The Adoration of the Shepherds by Velasquez, 1854. Painting newly acquired by the National Gallery in London, and thought at the time to be by Velázquez. It was probably painted in the 1630s. 'The Virgin Mary is represented as a simple, innocent countrywoman, proud of her high destiny, but conquering thought of self with devotional feeling towards the divine infant before whom she kneels. She partakes in the act of homage with the rudely-clad and rude-featured rustics who surround her, not pretending to engross to herself any share of their attention. By this means the whole interest is centred in the Infant Christ, who, though painted in a purely naturalesque and unaffected manner, is an admirable study; free from vulgarity, and almost suggestive by its expression of childish sense of a future important mission'. From "Illustrated London News", 1854.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM22B07_420

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

21,6Mo (2,7Mo) / 20,1cm x 26,9cm / 2376 x 3174 (300dpi)

Mots clés

agriculture female women woman people male child children man men family religious infant baby babies religion parent virgin guy British mother Christianity infancy Christ Jesus Jesus Christ motherhood century Virgin Mary Britain shepherd parenting newspapers press B&W 17th century mum 19th century black & white black and white B W Nativity Madonna nineteenth century shepherds seventeenth century The Print Collector Illustrated London News swaddled swaddling clothes ILN newspaper engraving Unknown Diego Velazquez Diego Velázquez Velázquez Adoration of the Shepherds Diego Velasquez Velasquez Velazquez Diego de Silva Velazquez Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velasquez Diego Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez Valasquez Diego de Silva 19th-century