Adoration of the Shepherds | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1943.1345
People: Giovanni Paolo Panini, Italian (Piacenza, Italy 1691 - 1765 Rome, Italy)
Title: Adoration of the Shepherds
Classification: Paintings
Work Type: painting
Date: c. 1718
Culture: Italian
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/229898

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

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

Inscriptions and Marks

(not assigned): Previously, a painting of the Adoration by Pannini in the Brooklyn Museum as associated with this number.: On back of old stretcher: " GIOAN. Paolo Panini / Sil o Card Valenti No 348"

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: 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.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.1345

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

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Publication History

Richard P. Wunder, "Two Religious Paintings by Pannini" (Spring 1960), XXI, 2, pp. 3-4
Ferdinando Arisi, Gian Paolo Panini (Piacenza, 1961), pp. 206, cat. no. 236, fig. 290 (b/w)
Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1972), p. 156
Ferdinando Arisi, Gian Paolo Panini e i fasti della Roma del Settecento (Rome, 1986), p. 265, cat. no. 88
Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 123, no. 760
Raffaella Morselli and Rossella Vodret, ed., Ritratto di una collezione: Pannini e la Galleria del Cardinale Silvio Valenti Gonzaga, exh. cat. (Milan, 2005), pp. 310, 349, 361

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