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	The Hours of Jeanne d'Évreux (detail), ca. 1324–28. Jean Pucelle. The Cloisters Collection, 1954 (54.1.2).


	Now there were in the same country shepherds living out in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. And behold, an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were greatly afraid. [Luke 2:8–9]

	The Adoration of the Shepherds Page 1 of 2: see page 2


	[Reading by Philippe de Montebello, director emeritus of The Metropolitan Museum of Art]