The Adoration of the Shepherds

1805

Benjamin West

Artist, American, 1738 - 1820

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with brown wash and blue gouache heightened with white on wove paper mounted to board

  • Credit Line

    Julius S. Held Collection, Avalon Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 22.9 × 32.9 cm (9 × 12 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 34.7 × 44.7 cm (13 11/16 × 17 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1984.3.72


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Central Picture Galleries, New York; Mrs. Jacob M. Kaplan, New York; Julius S. Held, Old Bennington, Vermont; purchased 1984 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1973

  • One Hundred Master Drawings from New England Private Collections, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford; Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College; Museum of Fine Art, Boston, 1973-1974, no. 42.

1986

  • Graphics Survey Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., April 1986.

Bibliography

1973

  • Robinson 1973, no. 42.

Inscriptions

lower left: B. West 1805; lower right mount in brown ink by unknown hand: No7; upper center verso in graphite by unknown hand: 1613 (not deciphered)

Markings

lower right verso stamped in black ink: JSH [Julius S. Held]

Watermarks

Fleur-de-lys in shield, with crown

Wikidata ID

Q64537241


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