The Adoration of the Shepherds

1530s

Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo

Artist, Brescian, c. 1480 - 1548 or after

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On View

West Building Main Floor, Gallery 23

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on panel

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 84.5 x 119.7 cm (33 1/4 x 47 1/8 in.)
    framed: 110.8 x 146.5 x 7.6 cm (43 5/8 x 57 11/16 x 3 in.)

  • Accession

    1961.9.86

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Don Bartola Bremuda, near Brescia, Italy. (Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, Florence and Rome);[1] sold 1950 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[2] gift 1961 to NGA.
[1] According to Fern Rusk Shapley, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XV - XVI Century, London, 1968: 90-91.
[2] See The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/2054.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1998

  • Die Nacht [The Night], Haus der Kunst, Munich, 1998-1999, no. 9, repro.

2018

  • Titian and Sixteenth-Century Painting in Venice and Brescia, Museo di Santa Giulia, Brescia, 2018, no. 51, repro.

Bibliography

1951

  • Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection Acquired by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation 1945-1951. Introduction by John Walker, text by William E. Suida. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1951: 275, no. 128, as The Adoration of the Child.

1965

  • Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 121, as The Adoration of the Child.

1968

  • National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 108, repro., as The Adoration of the Child.

  • Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XV-XVI Century. London, 1968: 90-91, fig. 217.

1975

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 322, repro.

1979

  • Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:420; 2:pl. 300, as Attributed to Savoldo.

1985

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 369, repro.

Wikidata ID

Q20175951

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