Adoration of the Shepherds (also referred to as The Nativity) is a late oil painting by the Flemish Northern Renaissance painter Hugo van der Goes, now in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin.

[1] Unusually large for van der Goes, it is less well-known than his Portinari Triptych or his Monforte Altarpiece on the same subject.

He produced it before renouncing his worldly life and becoming a lay brother at Rouge-Cloître Abbey near Brussels, a daughter house of the Windesheim Congregation in the strict tradition of the Brethren of the Common Life, part of the wider devotio moderna movement.

Standing in front of the scene, they act as intermediaries between it and the viewer, with the right-hand one with his hand and mouth open as if to speak.

[2] According to art historian Hans Belting, the panel "is indeed a scene in the theatrical sense, as we see the curtains opening on the stable in Bethlehem as if the play is about to begin.