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Predella panel from an altarpiece: Adoration of the Shepherds
Predella panel from an altarpiece: Adoration of the Shepherds

Predella panel from an altarpiece: Adoration of the Shepherds

Artist Unknown north Italian artist (Circle of Bonifacio Bembo) Italian, Cremonese, active 1442–died before 1482
Datecirca 1440–1450
MediumTempera and oil on panel
Dimensions12 1/2 x 16 1/2 in. (31.8 x 41.9 cm)
Frame: 17 1/8 x 21 1/4 x 1 1/4 in. (43.5 x 54 x 3.2 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina
Object number52.9.161
On View
On view
ProvenanceWith Newhouse Galleries, New York; sold to NCMA, 1952.Published ReferencesW. R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 192, illus. (b-w).

Perri Lee Roberts, Corpus of Early Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections: The South, Vol. 3 (Athens, GA: Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, 2009), discussed 660, illus. (b-w) 661.

Clementina Santi, Pietro da Talada: Un pittore del Quattrocento tra l’Appennino reggiano e le Apuane (Lucca: Unione Comuni Garfagnana, 2015), 99, 101, illus. (b-w), 100.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present. Object Rights Statement

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