Adoration of the Shepherds
Adoration of the Shepherds
- Artist
- Domenico Beccafumi
- Artist Dates
- 1486-1551
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Title
- Adoration of the Shepherds
- Date
- c. 1545 / 50
- Medium
- oil on panel
- Dimensions
- 48.6 x 31.7 cm (19-1/8 x 12-1/2 in)
- K Number
- K559
- Repository
- Allentown Art Museum
- Accession Number
- 1960.025.000
- Notes
Provenance
(Robert Langton Douglas [1864-1951], London). Dan Fellows Platt [1873-1938], Englewood, New Jersey; sold by Trustees of Platt Estate to Samuel H. Kress [1863-1955] in 1939; gift to the Allentown Art Museum in 1961, no. 1960.25.
Catalogue Entry
Domenico Beccafumi
Adoration of the Shepherds
K559
Allentown, Pa., Allentown Art Museum (60.25.KB), since 1960.(1) Wood. 19 1/8 X 12 1/2 in. (48.6 X 31.7 cm.). Fairly good condition; few abrasions in shadows. Like the Holy Family (K1194; Fig. 4) in the National Gallery of Art, K559 belongs to Beccafumi's late period, around 1545/50, and recalls in its sketchy technique the artist's tempera sketches on paper.(2) Provenance: R. Langton Douglas, London. Dan Fellows Platt, Englewood, N.J. (sold by estate trustee to the following). Kress acquisition, 1939 – exhibited: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Tex., 1953-54.(3)
References
(1) Catalogue by F. R. Shapley, 1960, p. 70, as Beccafumi. (2) K559 has been attributed to Beccafumi by B. Berenson (Italian Pictures ... Central Italian and North Italian Schools, vol. I, 1968, p. 34, and earlier editions) and D. Sanminiatelli (in Burlington Magazine, vol. XCVII, 1955, p.40; and Domenico Beccafumi, 1967, p. 120, dating it in the second half of the fifth decade; for reproductions of the tempera drawings see especially figs. 10-12 in the Burlington Magazine article). Only J. Judey (Domenico Beccafumi, 1932, p. 122) seems to have questioned the attribution to Beccafumi, suggesting that K559 might be a copy or a much repainted original. (3) Catalogue by W. E. Suida, 1953, pl. 10, as Beccafumi.