The Adoration of the Shepherds, c. 1600/1610

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Medium

black and red chalks with pen and brown and gray ink on laid paper, laid down on old mount

Dimensions

sheet: 25.9 × 20.3 cm (10 3/16 × 8 in.)
mount: 32.2 × 26.6 cm (12 11/16 × 10 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

2017.29.1

Artists / Makers

Andrea Lilio (artist) Italian, 1565 - 1635

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand, upper right of mount in pen and ink: 29.; by later hand, lower center of mount in the drawn banderole, in pen and ink : Lilli

Provenance

Part of a late-seventeenth century collection, all mounted in the same way, from the Marches in Italy; Austin Gunnison [1833-1915], Glendale, OH, and New York, and by descent; (sale, Christie's, Paris, 18 March 2004, no. 75); private collection, Monaco; (Nicolas Schwed, OMD Sarl, Paris); NGA purchase in 2017

Associated Names

Schwed, Nicolas

Exhibition History

2016: Dessins d'Andrea Lilio et de l'école des Marches. Nicolas Schwed, Paris, 2016, no. 1.

Bibliography

2007: Schwed, Nicolas. "Commentaires et additions au catalogue d'Andrea Lilli, dit Andrea d'Ancona." Bulletin de l'Association des Historiens de l'Art italien no. 13 (2007): 61, fig. 7.

2016: Rykner, Didier. "Des dessins d'Andrea Lilio exposés à Paris" La Tribune de l'Art 22 December 2016, accessed 14 February 2017: fig. 3. http://www.latribunedelart.com/des-dessins-d-andrea-lilio-exposes-a-paris