The Adoration of the Shepherds

probably 1520/1540

Adriaen Isenbrant

Artist, Netherlandish, active 1510 - 1551

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On View

West Building Main Floor, Gallery 39

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on panel

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 74.6 x 57 cm (29 3/8 x 22 7/16 in.)
    framed: 93.3 x 74.9 cm (36 3/4 x 29 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    1978.46.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Kleinberger Gallery, Paris). (Paul Cassirer, Amsterdam, by June 1936). (Rudolf Heinemann, New York, by 1937-January 1975). (Feilchenfeldt, Zurich);[1] purchased 1978 by NGA.
[1] Information on the provenance was provided by Walter M. Feilchenfeldt and Mrs. Rudolf Heinemann. See NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1924

  • Friedländer, Max J. Die altniederländische Malerei 14 vols. 1924-1937. Leiden, 1937: 14: 125. (English ed., 14 vols., 1967-1976. Leiden, 1974: 11:102, Suppl. 309, pl. 202.)

1978

  • Erwing, Dan. "The Paintings and Drawings of Jan de Beer." 2 vols. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1978: 1:78, 160; 2:fig. 94.

1983

  • Wilson, Jean. "Adriaen Isenbrant Reconsidered: The Making and Marketing of Art in Sixteenth-Century Bruges." Ph.D. diss., The Johns Hopkins University (1983):20-28, 191-192, pl. 17.

1984

  • Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 158, no. 174, color repro.

1985

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 210, repro.

1986

  • Hand, John Oliver and Martha Wolff. Early Netherlandish Painting. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, 1986: 118-122, repro. 119.

Inscriptions

center right at base of ornament on the square column at right: NSI (the 'S' in reverse)

Wikidata ID

Q20175532

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