Adoration of the Shepherds

Artists

Dimensions

100 x 76.5 cm (39 3/8 x 30 1/8 in.)

Provenance

Cardinal Silvio Valenti Gonzaga, Rome (d. 1756); rendered to Marchese Carlo Valenti (Mantua), 1760*, sold; to ?Yver (Amsterdam, May 18, 1763, lots 66 and 67**). ?Northern art market. Comte de Quincey, sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop; bequest to Fogg Art Museum, 1943. *Estimated at 20 scudi at the time. Ferdinando Arisi records this sale but associates it with paintings by Panini of the same subject today in the Brooklyn Museum. See Ferdinando Arisi, Gian Paolo Panini e i fasti della Roma del Settecento (Rome, 1986) p. 206. **The paintings sold for 230 Dutch Florins. Unless otherwise noted, the above information is summarized by Rossella Vodret, "Dopo Silvio Valenti Gonzaga: sule tracce di una collezione," in Raffaella Morselli and Rossella Vodret, eds., Ritratto di una collezione: Pannini e la Galleria del Cardinale Silvio Valenti Gonzaga (Milan, 2005) pp. 48-9.