The Adoration of the Shepherds
Artist
Jacob Jordaens
Flemish, 1593–1678
Date1657
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions106 1/4 x 81 in. (269.9 x 205.7 cm)
Frame: 111 1/2 x 85 1/2 in. (283.2 x 217.2 cm)
Frame: 111 1/2 x 85 1/2 in. (283.2 x 217.2 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineGift of John Motley Morehead
Object numberG.55.7.1
On View
Not on viewProvenanceCreated Flanders [present day Belgium], 1657. Joan Alexander van Susteren (1728–1764), Heer van s’Gravenwezel, Flanders; [his sale, Antwerp, June 26, 1764, no. 12, as The Birth of Christ]; Bruyninks. Possibly Victor Albert Francis Charles Spencer, 1st Viscount Churchill (1864–1934); Verena Maud (née Lowther), Viscountess Churchill (1865–1938). [Alfred Scharf, London, by 1939]; Robert Franck, London, after 1945; [Julius Weitzner, New York]; sold to NCMA, 1955 [1].
[1]. Purchased with funds provided by John Motley Morehead III (1870–1965), Rye, New York.
[1]. Purchased with funds provided by John Motley Morehead III (1870–1965), Rye, New York.
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Unknown north Italian artist (Circle of Bonifacio Bembo)
circa 1440–1450
