The Adoration of the Shepherds
The Adoration of the Shepherds
- Artist
- Giorgione
- Artist Dates
- 1477/1478-1510
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Title
- The Adoration of the Shepherds
- Date
- 1505/1510
- Medium
- oil on panel
- Dimensions
- 90.8 x 110.5 cm (35 3/4 x 43 1/2 in)
- K Number
- K509
- Repository
- National Gallery of Art
- Accession Number
- 1939.1.289
- Notes
Provenance
Cardinal Joseph Fesch [1763-1839], Rome; (his sale, Palazzo Ricci, Rome, 17 March 1845 and days following, no. 874). Claudius Tarral, Paris; (Tarral sale, Christie & Manson, London, 11 June 1847, no. 55); purchased by (Banting) for Thomas Wentworth Beaumont [d. 1848], Bretton Hall, Yorkshire, England; by inheritance to his son, Wentworth Blackett Beaumont, 1st baron Allendale [1829-1907], Bretton Hall; by inheritance to his son, Wentworth Canning Blackett Beaumont, 1st viscount and 2nd baron Allendale [1860-1923], Bretton Hall; by inheritance to his son, Wentworth Henry Canning Beaumont, 2nd viscount and 3rd baron Allendale [1890-1956], Bretton Hall; [1] sold August 1937 to (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris); [2] sold 1938 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; [3] gift 1939 to NGA. [1] Provenance according to Kress records in NGA curatorial files. [2] The painting is listed in the Duveen Brothers General Stock Book for the period 1 June 1937 to April 1941, and is annotated "Purchased Aug. 3, 1937" (copy in NGA curatorial files; Duveen Brothers Records, Accession No. 960015, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles: reel 66, box 186). See also the letter of 4 March 1965 from Ellis Waterhouse to Fern Rusk Shapley, in NGA curatorial files. [3] Letter, 21 June 1938, Duveen Brothers, Inc., to Samuel Kress (Duveen Brothers Records, Accession No. 960015, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles: reel 329, box 474, folder 5; copy in NGA curatorial files).