The Adoration of the Shepherds
1650/1655
Artist, Italian, 1609 - 1664
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on laid paper; laid down
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 41.2 × 60.9 cm (16 1/4 × 24 in.)
framed: 66.04 × 86.36 cm (26 × 34 in.) -
Accession
2012.7.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
C.R. Rudolf (sale, London, Sotheby's, 4 July 1977, lot 107); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1983
Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, CA; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1983-85, no. 30, repro.
1986
Meisterzeichnungen aus Sechs Jahrhunderten: Die Sammlung Ian Woodner, Albertina, Vienna; and Haus der Kunst, Munich, 1986, no. 31, repro.
Dibujos de los siglos XIV al XX: Colección Woodner, Museo del Prado, Madrid, 1986-87, no. 39, repro.
1987
Master Drawings: The Woodner Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1987, no. 29, repro.
1990
Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 37, repro.
1995
The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1995-1996, no. 74 (entry by Ann Percy).
1997
Six Centuries/Six Artists, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1997 (no cat.).
2006
Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007 (no cat.).
2012
The Baroque Genius of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2012 (no cat.).
2017
The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2017 (no cat.).
2020
A Superb Baroque: Art in Genoa, 1600-1750, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, 2020, no. 59 (Washington venue canceled).
2021
A Superb Baroque: Art in Genoa, 1600-1750 [canceled for National Gallery of Art venue], Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, 2021 - 2022, no. 59.
Bibliography
1981
de Gaigneron, Axelle. "Les Nouveaux Choix de Mr. Woodner." Connaissance des Arts. 348 (February 1981): 74-75 (repr.).
2020
Bober, Jonathan. A Superb Baroque: Art in Genoa, 1600-1750,Exh cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington: 210, no. 59.
Inscriptions
by later hand, on mount, lower center in pen and brown ink: Bene Castigli:
Wikidata ID
Q64572397