The Adoration of the Shepherds, 1782-1785

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series Title

Dessins des meilleurs Peintres d'Italie, d'Allemagne et des Pay-Bas Tirés de divers célebres Cabinets (Drawings by the Best Painters of Italy, Germany and the Netherlands, Taken from Various Famous Cabinets) [plate 28]

Medium

etching and aquatint in printed in red-brown and black

Dimensions

mount: 48.6 × 33.5 cm (19 1/8 × 13 3/16 in.)

sheet (trimmed within platemark): 32 × 22.2 cm (12 5/8 × 8 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Accession Number

1948.11.286

Artists / Makers

Johann Gottlieb Prestel (artist) German, 1739 - 1808

German 16th Century (artist after)

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate, in image, at upper right: 1548; in plate, below image, at center: Dessin d'un vieu Maitre allemand inconnu / du Cabinet de Monsieur de Praun à Nuremberg.; in plate, below image, at left: H.S.H. excud.; in plate, below image, at right: No. 28 / J. T. Prestel Sc. [lettering trimmed and pasted to verso of mount]

Provenance

(Walter Schatzki, New York); Lessing Julius Rosenwald, Philadelphia, PA, purchased 1947; gift to NGA, 1948.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

2021: Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2021 - 2022.