The Adoration of the Magi, c. 1600

West Building, Ground Floor — Gallery G10

Medium

oil on panel

Dimensions

overall: 24.8 × 25 cm (9 3/4 × 9 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

Accession Number

2016.87.1

Artists / Makers

Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli, called Morazzone (artist) Lombard, 1573 - 1626

Image Use

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Provenance

(Sale, Sotheby's, London, 6 December 1972, no. 84); (Maltzahn Gallery, Ltd., London). private collection, London, by 1974.[1] acquired c. 2000 on the Italian art market by private collection, Modena; acquired July 2015 by (Cantore Galleria Antiquaria, Modena); purchased 2016 by NGA.

[1] The painting was included in a 1974 exhibition in Birmingham, England, with this credit line in the catalogue.

Associated Names

Cantore Galleria Antiquaria
Maltzahn Gallery, Ltd.
Private Collection (NGA Former Owner)
Sotheby's

Exhibition History

1974: Lombard Paintings, c. 1595-c. 1630: The Age of Federico Borromeo, City Museums and Art Gallery, Birmingham, England, 1974, unnumbered catalogue, repro.

Bibliography

2003: Stoppa, Jacopo. Il Morazzone. Milan, 2003: no. OD[opere dubbie] 2, repro.

2016: Brown, David Alan. "Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli (called Morazzone), The Adoration of the Magi." National Gallery of Art Bulletin no. 55 (Fall 2016): 31, repro.