The Angel appearing to the Shepherds

Image credit: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

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This is one of a number of religious subjects painted in France in the 1760s. The domestic treatment of the theme suggests the artist's liking for Dutch seventeenth-century art.

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Oxford

Title

The Angel appearing to the Shepherds

Date

c. 1760–1769

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 40 x W 56 cm

Accession number

WA1851.19

Acquisition method

Bequeathed by Revd Dr Thomas Penrose, 1851

Work type

Painting

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