The Adoration of the Shepherds

Workshop of the Master of the High Foreheads

This work was removed from a triptych assembled in nineteenth-century Paris from plaques of various origins. The overall style and the figures’ prominent foreheads are immediately recognizable as products of the master or his workshop, in distinct contrast to the gravity of the Annunciation figures by Nardon Pénicaud (recorded 1493–1541) that were mounted on either side of the plaque when Benjamin Altman acquired the triptych.