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Giovanni Battista Franco
The Adoration of the Shepherds1530-1560

Not on view
Engraving of a crowded nativity scene with the infant in a woven basket at center, surrounded by kneeling figures, animals, and winged angels on clouds above, rendered in fine hatched lines

Giovanni Battista Franco, The Adoration of the Shepherds, 1530-1560, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Mary Stansbury Ruiz Bequest, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Giovanni Battista Franco
Title
The Adoration of the Shepherds
Place Made
Italy
Date Made
1530-1560
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
14 3/8 x 20 1/4 in. (36.51 x 51.44 cm)
Credit Line
Mary Stansbury Ruiz Bequest
Accession Number
M.88.91.22
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Prints and Drawings
Selected Bibliography
  • Bartsch, Adam von. The Illustrated Bartsch. New York: Abaris Books, 1978.

  • Davis, Bruce. Mannerist Prints: International Style in the Sixteenth Century. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1988.