The Adoration of the Shepherds

Related Artist: Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641)


Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Object details

Title

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Technique and support

oil on panel

Dimensions

23.6 x 27.6 cm

Artist

Related artist

Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641)

Most recent published attribution

Van Dyck [always]

Collection and provenance

Collection

Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Inv. no.

1852

Provenance

12th Lord Blantyre, d. 1900, Lennoxlove, Lothian;
Dr James Simon, Berlin;
with Karl Haberstock, Berlin;
given to the museum, 1919.

Literature

Literature

Glück 1929, pp. 125-7;
Glück 1931, p. 256 below;
Glück 1933, pp. 316-17, 414;
Vey 1956, pp. 180-1;
Antwerp/Rotterdam 1960, no. 131;
Berlin 1975, p. 141;
Larsen 1988, II, no. 687;
Jaffé 1995, pp. 87-93;
Barnes et al. 2004, pp. 248-9, no. III.3 (H. Vey);
Davies 2021a, p. 57, p. 63, n. 48;
Davies 2021e, p. 61.

Consult the bibliography

Panel reverse

Cradled or uncradled

Uncradled

Guild marks

None visible

Panel maker's mark

None visible

Labels

Museum labels

Inscriptions

1. ‘AvDyck’

Dendrochronology

Genus of wood

Oak

Number of planks

2

Plank no. 1

Tree rings: 41
Dated: AD 1549 – 1589
Felled: After AD 1599 (terminus post quem)
Origin: western Germany/south-eastern Belgium/north-eastern France

Plank no. 2

Tree rings: 235
Dated: AD 1363 – 1597
Felled: After AD 1607 (terminus post quem)
Origin: western Germany/south-eastern Belgium/north-eastern France

Planks of the same tree

-

Date of investigation

08 April 2019

Dendro report no.

GE018/2019

Remarks

Remark

Check

Author

Drs. Justin Davies

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