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National Gallery of Art - THE COLLECTION
image of The Adoration of the Shepherds
Giorgione
Venetian, 1477/1478 - 1510
The Adoration of the Shepherds, 1505/1510
oil on panel, 90.8 x 110.5 cm (35 3/4 x 43 1/2 in.)
Samuel H. Kress Collection
1939.1.289
From the Tour: Giorgione and the High Renaissance in Venice
Object 3 of 7

Exhibition History

1912
A Collection of Pictures of the Early Venetian School and Other Works of Art, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1912, no. 19 (no. 58 and frontispiece in illustrated catalogue titled Early Venetian Pictures and Other Works of Art).
1930
Exhibition of Italian Art 1200-1900, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1930, no. 395 (no. 332, pl. CXXV of commemorative catalogue published 1931; not in souvenir catalogue).
1979
Berenson and the Connoisseurship of Italian Painting, Natioanal Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1979, no. 60, repro.
1988
The Pastoral Landscape: The Legacy of Venice, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1988-1989, no. 3, fig. 43.
2006
Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna, 2006-2007, no. 17, as Adoration of the Shepherds ("Allendale Nativity"); fig. 2 in brochure.

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