The Adoration of the Shepherds

Related Artist: Jacques Jordaens (1593 - 1678)


Mauritshuis, The Hague, The Netherlands

Object details

Title

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Technique and support

oil on panel

Dimensions

125.5 x 96 cm

Artist

Related artist

Jacques Jordaens (1593 - 1678)

Most recent published attribution

Jordaens [always] Signed: I.Ior.

Collection and provenance

Collection

Mauritshuis, The Hague, The Netherlands

Inv. no.

937

Provenance

Prince Lichnowsky, Kuchelna, Silezia, before 1905;
with Paul Cassirer, Berlin and Amsterdam, 1927-28;
A.N.F. Rhodius, Bennebroek;
F.R.H. Rhodius, Heemstede, 1953;
acquired by the museum with the aid of the Johan Maurits van Nassau Foundation, 1959.

Literature

Literature

Rooses 1906, p. 264 (when the painting was still in the Lichnowsky collection), as Jordaens;
Van Puyvelde 1953, p. 187;
Gerson 1961, no.14;
Mauritshuis 1970, no. 11;
Knipping 1974, II, p. 429;
d’Hulst 1982, p.331, n.55;
Mauritshuis 1993, p. 80;
Paris 2013, p. 111, under no. II-06 (A. Merle du Bourg).

Consult the bibliography

Panel reverse

Cradled or uncradled

Cradled with a wooden backing

Dendrochronology

Genus of wood

Oak

Number of planks

4

Plank no. 1

Tree rings: 134
Dated: AD 1457 – 1590
Felled: After AD 1600 (terminus post quem)
Origin: Poland/ Baltic states

Plank no. 2

Tree rings: 275
Dated: AD 1310 – 1584
Felled: After AD 1594 (terminus post quem)
Origin: Poland/ Baltic states

Plank no. 3

Tree rings: 142
Dated: AD 1457 – 1598
Felled: After AD 1608 (terminus post quem)
Origin: Poland/ Baltic states

Plank no. 4

Tree rings: 166
Dated: AD 1423 – 1588
Felled: After AD 1598 (terminus post quem)
Origin: Poland/ Baltic states

Date of investigation

10 October 2017

Dendro report no.

DH003/2017

Author

Dr. MBA Joost Vander Auwera

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