The Adoration of the Shepherds

Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.

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Artist: Sébastien Bourdon (French, Montpellier 1616–1671 Paris)
Date: mid-17th century
Medium: Black chalk, heightened with white, on brown paper; framing lines in pen and black ink
Dimensions: 14 3/16 x 11 9/16 in. (36.1 x 29.3 cm)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawings
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1961
Accession no.: 61.166.1

Christ Receiving the Children
Sébastien Bourdon
c. 1655 · Painting
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00000610
Portrait of a Man
Sébastien Bourdon
1657–58 · Painting
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001041
The Baptism of Christ
Sébastien Bourdon
ca. 1650 · Painting
Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of Art
AT-00014625
A Classical Landscape
Sébastien Bourdon
probably 1660s · Painting
Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of Art
AT-00014626