Adoration of the Shepherds is a c. 1480 tempera and gold on panel painting by the Italian painter Carlo Crivelli.

[1] Its commissioner is unknown but the work relates to the Nativity panel in the predella of the Ottoni Altarpiece in Matelica.

Its attribution has varied - in 1896 Charles Loeser argued it was a fake and Drey wrote of its artist as an elusive "Master of the Adoration of Strasbourg", but it is now held to be a late completely autograph work by Crivelli.

[3] Bethlehem is shown in the work's background, possibly modelled on Ascoli Piceno, with the addition of a column with a gilded statue, one of the most noted ancient monuments of Constantinople.

The perspectivally foreshortened Christ Child leans on a corner of the Madonna's mantle in a manner reminiscent of Mantegna's Ovetari Chapel frescoes.