The Adoration of the Shepherds

Related Artist: Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641)


Earl of Yarborough, Brocklesby Park, United Kingdom

Object details

Title

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Technique and support

Oil on panel

Dimensions

37.7 x 31.0 cm

Artist

Related artist

Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641)

Most recent published attribution

After Van Dyck [Vey 2004]

Collection and provenance

Collection

Earl of Yarborough, Brocklesby Park, United Kingdom

Inv. no.

166

Provenance

George Aufrere, London (d. 1801);
by descent to the Earls of Yarborough.

Literature

Literature

Glück 1931, nn. 256-7, as Van Dyck;
Vey 1956, p. 181, as after Van Dyck;
Larsen 1988, no. 688, as Van Dyck;
Jaffé 1995, pp. 87-93, as Van Dyck;
Barnes et al. 2004, pp. 248-9, under no. III.3 (H. Vey), as after Van Dyck.

Consult the bibliography

Panel reverse

Cradled or uncradled

Uncradled

Dendrochronology

Genus of wood

Oak

Number of planks

2

Plank no. 1

Tree rings: 121
Dated: AD 1486 – 1606
Felled: After AD 1616 (terminus post quem)
Origin: south-eastern Belgium/ north-eastern France

Plank no. 2

Tree rings: 122
Dated: AD 1467 – 1588
Felled: After AD 1616 (terminus post quem)
Origin:

Planks of the same tree

1. and 2. this painitng

Date of investigation

23 October 2019

Dendro report no.

UK033/2020

Author

Drs. Justin Davies

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