Philips Wouwerman

The Annunciation to the shepherds



Philips Wouwerman - The Annunciation to the shepherds



Philips Wouwerman
The Annunciation to the shepherds
47.5 x 40.6 cm
Oil on panel
National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin


Literature

Homan Potterton, Dutch seventeenth and eighteenth century paintings in the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, 1986, p. 180, fig. 182


Provenance

van Sacegham, ghent, 1839
van Sacegham of Ghent sale, Brussels, 2 June 1851, lot 84
bt. Styart van Brugge
Sir Edgar Vincent
by whom presented to The National Gallery of Ireland, 1907
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Iconclass

73B14 Annunciation of Christ's birth to the shepherds (and/or shepherdesses) at night; a host of singing angels in the air

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