# Adoration of the Shepherds [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [OOST, Jacob van, the Elder]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on panel, 147 x 114 cm ## Commentary Adoration of the Shepherds 1630 Oil on panel, 147 x 114 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg Jacob van Oost the Elder lived in Italy from 1621 to 1628. After returning to Bruges, he worked there for the rest of his life, principally as a painter of altarpieces, in response to an unceasing flow of commissions from churches for decoration in the spirit of the Counter-Reformation. Nothing is known of the work he did in Italy, but his earliest dated painting, the Adoration of the Shepherds of 1630 is Caravaggist in its treatment of light and its use of local colour, and even more in its choice of ordinary-looking common people for the characters. ## Related artworks - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [Card-Sharpers]() - [Christ Crowned with Thorns]() - [David Bearing the Head of Goliath]() - [Female Martyr]() - [Portrait of a Bruges Family]() - [Portrait of Fovin de Hasque]() - [Portrait of Salomon van Meldeghem]() - [St Martin]() - [The Artist's Studio]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()