Barend Fabritius

The Adoration of the Shepherds



Barend Fabritius - The Adoration of the Shepherds



Barend Fabritius
The Adoration of the Shepherds
1667
66 x 61 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed on the lower part of the mager, in the shadow: Fab it u / 1667
The National Gallery, London


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
Werner Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler II, Landau/Pfalz, 1983, nr. 573

Collection catalogues
Neil MacLaren, revised and expanded by Christopher Brown, The Dutch school, 1600-1900, London, 1991, p. 134, plate 114


Provenance

a 'Birth of Christ, by Fabritius' was in the Cornelis Wittert, Heer van Valkenburg sale, Rotterdam, 11 April 1731, nr. 73
collection of Edward Habich, Cassel by 1881
appears in the catalogue of the Edward Habich sale, Cassel, 9-10 May 1892, nr. 49, but was purchased by The National Gallery from Habich in 1891
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Iconclass

73B25 Adoration of the Christ-child by the shepherds; Mary and Joseph present

External links

RKD 242031
National Gallery, London Accession number NG1338

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