Jacob Watering Laban's Sheep before Peeled Branches
Artist
Pedro Orrente
Spanish, circa 1580–1645
Datecirca 1612–1622
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions39 x 52 in. (99.1 x 132.1 cm)
Frame: 48 5/8 x 61 1/8 in. (123.5 x 155.3 cm)
Frame: 48 5/8 x 61 1/8 in. (123.5 x 155.3 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina
Object number52.9.181
On View
Not on viewPublished ReferencesW. R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 214, illus. (b-w).
Art News (April 1956), illus. 37.
May Davis Hill, "Representations from the Old Testament in the Museum's Collection of Paintings," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 1, no. 2 (Summer 1957), discussed 11-12, illus. (b-w) 11.
Juan Antonio Gaya Nuño, La pintura española fuera de españa (Madrid: 1958), cat. no. 2068.
Curtis Coley, "The Delectable Foothills of Spanish Painting," Art News 62, no. 1 (March 1963), 23-25.
Emporium (December 1963), 276, illus.
El Greco to Goya (exhibition catalogue) (Indianapolis: John Herron Museum of Art, 1963), cat. no. 56.
Marianna Haraszti-Takacs, Spanish Genre Painting in the Seventeenth Century (Budapest: Akademia Kiado, 1983), cat. no. 145.
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) 219.
Edward J. Sullivan, Catalogue of Spanish Paintings (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1986), cat. no. 20, illus. (b-w) 68, also mentioned xii.
Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 209.
Sarah Schroth and Ronni Baer, et al, El Greco to Velázquez: Art During the Reign of Philip III (exhibition catalogue) (Boston: MFA Publications, 2008), mentioned 92, briefly discussed 270, illus. (color) 280.
Javier Irigoyen-García, The Spanish Arcadia: Sheep Herding, Pastoral Discourse, and Ethnicity in Early Modern Spain (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014), briefly discussed 65, illus. (b-w) 64, fig. 2.
Exhibition HistoryIndianapolis, IN, John Herron Museum of Art, “El Greco to Goya...,” 1963; Providence, RI, Rhode Island School of Design, 1963, cat. no. 56.
Richmond, VA, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, “Masterpieces from the North Carolina Museum of Art,” March 11-April 13, 1975.
Boston, MA, "El Greco to Velazquez: Art during the Reign of Philip III," April 13-July 27, 2008; Durham, NC, Nasher Museum of Art, August 22-November 9, 2008, cat. no. 57, illus. (color) 280.
Sarah Schroth and Ronni Baer, et al, El Greco to Velázquez: Art During the Reign of Philip III (exhibition catalogue) (Boston: MFA Publications, 2008), mentioned 92, 270, illus. (color) 280. Object Rights Statement
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