The Adoration of the Shepherds

Related Artist: Jacques Jordaens (1593 - 1678)


Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp, Belgium

Object details

Title

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Technique and support

oil on panel

Dimensions

64.3 x 51.4 cm

Artist

Related artist

Jacques Jordaens (1593 - 1678)

Most recent published attribution

Jordaens [Paris 2013-14]

Collection and provenance

Collection

Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp, Belgium

Inv. no.

478

Provenance

Probably, Comte d’Orsay sale, Paris, 14 April 1790, no. 30, where bought by Basan;
acquired in 1902 by the museum.

Literature

Literature

Van Puyvelde 1953, p. 94, as inferior to Jordaens;
d’Hulst 1956a, pp. 23-4;
Gerson – Ter Kuile 1960, p. 129, as Jordaens;
Mayer Van den Bergh Museum 1966, pp. 73-74 (J. de Coo), as Jordaens;
d’Hulst 1974, I, p. 125, under no.A32 (verso), as a weak painting, difficult to place;
Mayer Van den Bergh Museum 1978, pp. 82-83 (J. de Coo) as Jordaens;
Antwerp 1978, no. 5, as Jordaens and studio;
De Coo 1979, pp. 284-85, as Jordaens;
New York Museum 1984, I, p. 123, footnote 6 (W. Liedtke) as studio of Jordaens;
Paris 2013-14, no. II-06, pp. 110-111 (A. Merle du Bourg), as Jordaens.

Consult the bibliography

Panel reverse

Cradled or uncradled

Cradled

Labels

print and typescript paper label of the Antwerp 1878 exhibition

Dendrochronology

Genus of wood

Oak

Number of planks

2

Plank no. 1

Tree rings: 139
Dated: AD 1443 – 1581
Felled: After AD 1590 (terminus post quem)
Origin: Poland/ Baltic states

Plank no. 2

Tree rings: 163
Dated: AD 1395 – 1557
Felled: After AD 1609 (terminus post quem)
Origin: Poland/ Baltic states

Date of investigation

22 March 2017

Dendro report no.

AN004/2021

Remarks

Remark

No marks found on the reverse, probably by cradling

Author

Dr. MBA Joost Vander Auwera

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