The Arrival in Bethlehem in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 2007

The Arrival in Bethlehem, ca. 1540
Attributed to Master LC (Netherlandish, active second quarter 16th century)
Oil on wood; 26 1/2 x 36 7/8 in. (67.3 x 93.7 cm)
Rogers Fund, 1916 (16.69)

Details of religious narrative are scattered in an extensive landscape setting, reflecting the growing importance in Netherlandish painting of landscape as an independent genre. The picture is unfinished, and the underdrawing is easily seen with the naked eye—in the village in the middle distance and in the rocky mountains beyond it.

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