A copy of the right hand section of Andrea Mantegna’s Adoration of the Shepherds, c.1450−57, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (32.130.2)

The copyist omitted the landscape, concentrating instead on the pose, drapery and facial expression of the two shepherds, and including the man and woman crossing the bridge at the right of Mantegna’s composition. The copyist made several changes to those subsidiary figures. showing the woman holding the body of a bird, presumably a gift for the Virgin and Child, and altering the flow of drapery wrapped around the woman’s face, extending its fall over her shoulder. Behind these two figures the shoulder and cheek of a third person are visible,

Adolfo Venturi (note on mount) attributed the drawing to Bernardino Parentino; Popham (in P&W) noted that the painting of the Adoration came from a phase in Mantegna’s art that proved influential to Parentino’s manner. But the style of the copy is remote from Mantegna's own drawing style.

For an engraving after Mantegna’s Adoration see RCIN 809572.