Title: Shepherds Dreaming of the Flight into Egypt
Object type: Drawing
Date: 18th century
Artist:  Jean-Baptiste Deshays 
Artist bio: French, Colleville 1729–1765 Paris
Artist nationality: French
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Oil paint over black chalk on paper, mounted on canvas. Varnished.
Dimensions: 13 1/8 x 12 1/8 in.  (33.4 x 30.8 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1983
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Sleeping, term: Men, term: Women, term: Sheep, term: Shepherds