Adoration of the Shepherds

1780s

Gaetano Gandolfi

Artist, Bolognese, 1734 - 1802

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and aquatint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 20.8 × 15.8 cm (8 3/16 × 6 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2020.73.2

  • 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)


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