"Adoration Of The Shepherds, Flanders, 17th C."
Very large oil on mesh oak panel representing the adoration of the shepherds, with three angels and a woman carrying a basket of offerings on her head. The shepherds near the place of the Nativity (Bethlehem), watching as usual with their animals in the fields, for the longest night of the year, that of the solstice, are informed first, by the angels in the sky. , of the coming of the Saviour. They go to the manger to prostrate themselves before the child Jesus and to celebrate the incarnation of the all-powerful King of Heaven (Gospel according to Luke, 2: 8-20) Flanders, beginning of the 17th century, no doubt Antwerp workshops. rear frame 
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