Charles Le Brun was an important figure in 17th century French painting. Shows here in his adoration of the shepherds (also here), he his skills with composition, colour and light with you to gently lead our eyes through various aspects of a complex scene.
The immediate focus of course, is your illuminated numbers by the dark outline the foreground accentuated characters on the mother and the child. Then our eye sweeps upwards through the corners of the angelic banner with the rising smoke, in the heavens have opened in our scene. If we again have to pay, in the foreground we a wealth of other numbers, earthly and ethereal, which to focus on.
Le Brun's rich blues and deep orange-red balance and complement each other very nice, strengthening the path of our eye and give the painting a vivid, vibrant characters in total.
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