The Adoration of the Shepherds

Artist Francesco II Bassano (Francesco II dal Ponte) Italian, 1549–1592

Datecirca 1585–1590

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions46 x 66 in. (116.8 x 167.6 cm)
Frame: 63 1/8 x 83 1/8 in. (160.3 x 211.1 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina and from the North Carolina State Art Society (Robert F. Phifer Bequest)

Object number52.9.144

On View

On view

ProvenanceSir J.C. Robinson, London; sold to Sir Francis Cook (1872-1901), Richmond, Doughty House, Richmond, Surrey, England; by inheritance 1901 to his son, Sir Frederick Cook (1844-1920), Doughty House, Richmond, Surrey; by inheritance [1920] to his son Sir Herbert Cook (1868-1939) Doughty House, at least until 1932, presumably sold around 1939; with M. Knoedler & Co., New York, by 1949; with Newhouse Galleries, New York; sold to NCMA, 1952.
Published ReferencesTancred Borenius, A Catalogue of the Paintings at Doughty House in the Collection of Sir Frederick Cook, Vol. 1, The Italian Schools (London: William Heinemann, 1913), no. 162.

Bernhard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: A List of the Principal Artists and their Works with an Index of Places (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1932), 58 (as Jacopo Bassano da Ponte). [Richmond (Surrey) Cook Collection, 162, Adoration of the Shepherds].

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Members' Bulletin 10, no. 4 (December 1949), illus.

W. R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 174 (as by Jacopo Bassano da Ponte), illus. (b-w).

Nikolaus Pevsner, Studies in Art, Architecture and Design, Vol. 1 (New York: Walker and Co., 1968), 249, illus. no. 16.

Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus (b-w) 193.

Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 181.
Exhibition HistoryRichmond, VA, The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, December, 1949

Winston-Salem, NC, Reynolda House, 'Nativity Scenes," December 7 1965-February, 1966.

Chapel Hill, NC, Ackland Art Museum, long-term loan to be displayed with the permanent collection, May 29, 2007–2008.

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