The Adoration of the Shepherds

Workshop of the Master of the High Foreheads

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 544

This work was removed from a triptych assembled in nineteenth-century Paris from plaques of various origins. The overall style
and the figures’ prominent foreheads are immediately recognizable as products of the master or his workshop, in distinct contrast
to the gravity of the Annunciation figures by Nardon Pénicaud (recorded 1493–1541) that were mounted on either side of the plaque when Benjamin Altman acquired the triptych.

The Adoration of the Shepherds, Workshop of the Master of the High Foreheads (Atelier aux Grands Fronts), Painted enamel on copper, partly gilt, French, Limoges

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