The Adoration of the Shepherds

Domenico Piola, Italian, 1627 - 1703

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about 1680

Pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk

Overall: 16 3/4 × 10 7/8 in. (42.5 × 27.6 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Mrs. Harvey P. Hood W'18 Fund

D.995.9.2

Geography

Place Made: Italy, Europe

Period

1600-1800

Object Name

Drawing

Research Area

Drawing

Not on view

Inscriptions

Inscribed, in yellow-brown ink, lower center: MB; lower right, collection mark of Victor W. Newman (Lugt 2540): VWN

Course History

SART 20, SART 71, Drawing II, Drawing III, Tom Ferrara, Summer 2012

SART 15, Drawing I, Kate Emlen, Fall 2013

Exhibition History

European Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 30, 2008-March 8, 2009.

Figures and Structures: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art History 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 2-March 10, 1996.

Publication History

T. Barton Thurber, Twenty Years of Building a Collection: The Hood Museum of Art, Apollo (Vol. 162, no. 526), December 2005, London: Apollo Magazine, 2005, pp. 46-53, ill. p.50.

T. Barton Thurber, European Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2008, pp. 152-153, ill. p.153, no. 91.

Provenance

Victor W. Newman (Lugt 2540); New York, Sotheby's, January 10, 1995, lot 151; Robert Dance, Inc., New York; sold to present collection, 1995.

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