The Adoration of the Shepherds, c. 1625/1675

West Building, Ground Floor — Gallery G14

Medium

terracotta

Dimensions

overall: 109 x 57 cm (42 15/16 x 22 7/16 in.)

framed: 141.6 x 94.1 x 12.5 cm (55 3/4 x 37 1/16 x 4 15/16 in.)
gross weight: 85.73 kg (189 lb.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1939.1.319

Artists / Makers

Anonymous Artist (sculptor)

Annibale Fontana (artist after) Milanese, 1540 - 1587

Image Use

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Provenance

Trivulzio Collection, Milan;[1] (Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, Florence); purchased August 1936 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[2] gift 1939 to NGA.

[1] The invoice from Contini Bonacossi for the relief and a number of paintings indicates the relief was formerly in this collection; copy in NGA curatorial files.

[2] The invoice (see note 1) is dated 1 August 1936, and an annotation dated 12 August 1936 indicates the bill had been paid.

Associated Names

Contini Bonacossi, Alessandro, Count
Kress Foundation, Samuel H.
Trivulzio collection

Bibliography

1941: Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 224, no. A-23, as by Annibale Fontana.

1942: Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 253, repro. 228, as by Annibale Fontana.

1945: Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 200, repro., as by Annibale Fontana.

1949: Seymour, Charles. Masterpieces of Sculpture from the National Gallery of Art. Washington and New York, 1949: 181, note 45, repro. 139-141, as by Annibale Fontana.

1959: Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 429, repro., as by Annibale Fontana.

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 155, as by Annibale Fontana.

1968: National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 138, repro., as by Annibale Fontana.

1976: Middeldorf, Ulrich. Sculptures from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools XIV-XIX Century. London, 1976: 74.

1994: Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 90, repro.