Art, literature & history
Adoration of the Shepherds
1780s
- Dating
- Within this decade
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching and aquatint on laid paper
- Dimensions
- sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 20.8 × 15.8 cm (8 3/16 × 6 1/4 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2020.73.2
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Gaetano Gandolfi. Adoration of the Shepherds. Gaetano Gandolfi; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Adoration of the Shepherds — Gaetano Gandolfi. 1780s.
Medium: etching and aquatint on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 20.8 × 15.8 cm (8 3/16 × 6 1/4 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2020.73.2. Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.