(L’Annonce aux Bergers)
The Virgin is seated and holds the Infant Jesus on a cradle formed
of basket-work; she wears a red robe with blue and green draperies
and a white veil, under which her brown hair is seen. To her right
St. Joseph is seated leaning on his staff; before him a shepherd
boy kneels in adoration to the Infant Christ. To the left kneels
the _donatrice_, her hands folded. In the ruined shed behind the
Holy Family are the ox and ass. To the right of the composition is
a landscape background in which several figures appear. A small
group of angels in the sky.
Painted in oil on canvas.