The Adoration of the Shepherds
c. 1600/1610
Artist, Italian, 1565 - 1635

Artwork overview
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Medium
black and red chalks with pen and brown and gray ink on laid paper, laid down on old mount
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 25.9 × 20.3 cm (10 3/16 × 8 in.)
mount: 32.2 × 26.6 cm (12 11/16 × 10 1/2 in.) -
Accession
2017.29.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Part of a late-seventeenth century collection, all mounted in the same way, from the Marches in Italy; Austin Gunnison [1833-1915], Glendale, OH, and New York, and by descent; (sale, Christie's, Paris, 18 March 2004, no. 75); private collection, Monaco; (Nicolas Schwed, OMD Sarl, Paris); NGA purchase in 2017
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2016
Dessins d'Andrea Lilio et de l'école des Marches. Nicolas Schwed, Paris, 2016, no. 1.
Bibliography
2007
Schwed, Nicolas. "Commentaires et additions au catalogue d'Andrea Lilli, dit Andrea d'Ancona." Bulletin de l'Association des Historiens de l'Art italien no. 13 (2007): 61, fig. 7.
2016
Rykner, Didier. "Des dessins d'Andrea Lilio exposés à Paris" La Tribune de l'Art 22 December 2016, accessed 14 February 2017: fig. 3. http://www.latribunedelart.com/des-dessins-d-andrea-lilio-exposes-a-paris
Inscriptions
by later hand, upper right of mount in pen and ink: 29.; by later hand, lower center of mount in the drawn banderole, in pen and ink : Lilli
Wikidata ID
Q64535755