The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of May 30, 2026
Adoration of the Shepherds
1567
(Dutch, 1533–1578)
after Taddeo Zuccaro
Image: 42.8 x 29 cm (16 7/8 x 11 7/16 in.)
Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 2025.202
Location: Not on view
Did You Know?
The engraver Cornelis Cort was particularly known for his dramatic skies, as seen here, which he relayed with a bevy of swelled lines crossed to create moiré effects.Description
Dutch engraver Cornelis Cort was a pivotal figure in 16th-century printmaking. Trained in Antwerp under the print publisher Hieronymus Cock, he later worked in Venice with Titian and in Rome with artists such as Taddeo Zuccaro. To translate Taddeo’s dramatic composition of the adoration of the shepherds, Cort utilized his innovative “swelling line,” a method of shaping tone and volume with swelled lines that are crossed at various angles to provide clarity and luminosity to a complicated composition.- ?–2025(Hill-Stone, Inc., South Dartmouth, MA, sold to The Print Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH)December 8, 2025–The Print Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH, given to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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