Masters/James Tissot/The Angel and the Shepherds
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It is night on the hills, and a cluster of shepherds wakes in terror. At the right an angel appears as pure light among the trees. Tissot paints the moment before the words: “Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy.”
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Other masters in room 6, Good Tidings of Great Joy:
Carl Bloch
The Shepherds and the Angel, 1865–1879
Oil on copper
Museum of National History, Frederiksborg Castle
One of the 23 King's Oratory paintings
Carl Bloch
Adoration of the Shepherds, 1882
Oil on canvas, 82 × 106 cm
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm (NM 1352)
Carl Bloch
Adoration of the Shepherds, 1881
Line etching
SMK, the National Gallery of Denmark (KKSgb13136)
James Tissot
The Adoration of the Shepherds, 1886–1894
Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper
Brooklyn Museum, purchased by public subscription (00.159.26)
Alexander Ivanov
The Shepherds Praise God, late 1840s–1858
Watercolor and pencil on paper (Biblical Sketches)
State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York.
Google MapsGoogle EarthImage: Brooklyn Museum, via Wikimedia Commons. The work itself is in the public domain.
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