The Adoration of the Shepherds
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Luke's shepherds were told they would find the child in a manger. Isenbrant's lies on an upturned basket, with a bundle of wheat beside him. The Met's Cloisters blog gives the reading: Gregory the Great translated Bethlehem as house of bread, and wheat beside the Child names him as bread.
Everyone else is arriving. Three men in burgundy and black enter the ruin from the left, one with an instrument at his lips; two more kneel beyond Joseph. Far back, tiny figures dance around a fire. On the square column at right, the letters NSI, the S reversed.
Sources: National Gallery of Art, Washington, 'The Adoration of the Shepherds', Adriaen Isenbrant, acc. 1978.46.1, visual description and inscription; re-read 2026-09-01. · Deirdre Larkin, 'Bread from Heaven', The Medieval Garden Enclosed (The Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum of Art), 18 December 2012. · Luke 2:12 and 2:16, Douay-Rheims (Challoner).
And they came with haste: and they found Mary and Joseph, and the infant lying in the manger.
Luke 2:16 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), from the project’s own corpus at data/bible_drc.js
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 24,063 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.