# Adoration of the Shepherds [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CHAMPAIGNE, Philippe de]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 236 x 162 cm ## Commentary Adoration of the Shepherds c. 1630 Oil on canvas, 236 x 162 cm Wallace Collection, London The official paintings of Champaigne's early period show him as an artist still involved in the hieratic style imposed by the tradition of this type of composition, but in his religious paintings he gives freer play to his skill depicting individual types, many of which defy the canons of classical beauty. The present Adoration of the Shepherds shows him in this mood. The handling and the lighting have been learnt from the early Rubens, and even the colour and the composition are derived from him, but they have been transformed in the borrowing. ## Related artworks - [Annunciation]() - [Cardinal Richelieu]() - [Cardinal Richelieu]() - [Crucifixion]() - [Ex Voto]() - [King Louis XIII]() - [Louis XIII Crowned by Victory \(Siege of La Rochelle, 1628\)]() - [Moses with the Ten Commandments]() - [Portrait of a Man]() - [Portrait of a Man]() - [Portrait of Bishop Jean-Pierre Camus]() - [Portrait of Henri Groulart]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()