Adoration of the Shepherds
1780s
Artist, Bolognese, 1734 - 1802

Artwork overview
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Medium
etching and aquatint on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 20.8 × 15.8 cm (8 3/16 × 6 1/4 in.)
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Accession
2020.73.2
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Catalogue Raisonné
De Vesme 1906, undesc. .
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Konrad Meier (not in Lugt). (Il Bulino Antiche Stampe di Matteo Crespi, Milan); purchased 2020 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2021
Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2021 - 2022.
Bibliography
1906
Vesme, Alexandre de (Baudi di Vesme, Alessandro). Le peintre-graveur italien; ouvrage faisant suite au peintre-graveur de Bartsch. Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 1906: undesc
2021
Hoisington, Rena. Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya. Washington, 2021: 23, fig. 12.
Inscriptions
lower left in plate: GGF
Markings
Konrad Meier (not in Lugt)