The Adoration of the Shepherds

Related Artist: Jacques Jordaens (1593 - 1678)


Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig, Germany

Object details

Title

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Technique and support

oil on panel

Dimensions

125.6 x 96 cm

Artist

Related artist

Jacques Jordaens (1593 - 1678)

Most recent published attribution

Jordaens [always]

Collection and provenance

Collection

Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig, Germany

Inv. no.

116

Provenance

Documented in Salzdahlum since at least 1776;
taken to Paris in 1806;
returned from Paris to Braunschweig in 1815;
in the museum from 1816 onwards.

Literature

Literature

Brunswick 1776, p. 230, no. 45, as Jordaens;
Paris 1807, no. 447;
Paris 1810, no.57;
Empirius 1836, p. 151, no. 417;
Parthey 1863, p. 642, no. 7;
Rooses 1879, p. 551;
Rooses 1881, p. 360;
Riegl 1882, pp. 100 ff., no. 465;
Flechsig and Meijer 1905, p. 13;
Rooses 1908, pp. 17 ff., 266;
Bredius 1906, p. 33;
Oldenbourg 1918, p. 114;
Burchard 1928, pp. 209-10;
Von Schneider 1933, pp. 99, 136;
Glück 1933, p. 411;
Van Puyvelde 1953, p. 94;
Bode 1956, p. 510 ;
Ottawa 1968-69, pp.18, 39;
Braunschweig 1969, p.80;
Knipping 1970, pp. 15, 40-2;
Knipping 1974, II, p. 429;
Braunschweig 1976, p. 36, no. 116;
Nicolaus 1979, p. 227;
d’Hulst 1982, p. 331 n. 55;
Klessmann et al. 1978, p. 50;
Broos 1987, pp. 228 ff;
Antwerp 1993, p. 42, under no. A2 (R-A. d’Hulst);
Klessmann 2003, pp. 65, no.116, colour fig. p.145, no. 21.

Consult the bibliography

Panel reverse

Cradled or uncradled

Cradled

Labels

1. Old hand-written label in brown ink
2. Museum label

Dendrochronology

Genus of wood

Oak

Number of planks

4

Plank no. 1

Tree rings: 126
Dated: undated
Felled: -
Origin: -

Plank no. 2

Tree rings: 215
Dated: undated
Felled: -
Origin: -

Plank no. 3

Tree rings: 120
Dated: undated
Felled: -
Origin: -

Plank no. 4

Tree rings: 202
Dated: AD 1389 – 1590
Felled: After AD 1600 (terminus post quem)
Origin: Poland/ Baltic states

Date of investigation

15 May 2018

Dendro report no.

GE003/2018

Author

Dr. MBA Joost Vander Auwera

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