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Property from the Arizona State University Art Museum Sold to Benefit Acquisitions and Direct Collections Care

FOLLOWER OF JACOB JORDAENS

The Adoration of the Shepherds, a fragment

Details

FOLLOWER OF JACOB JORDAENS
The Adoration of the Shepherds, a fragment
oil on canvas
45 ¾ x 32 in. (116.2 x 81.3 cm.)

Provenance

Countess Northbrook, Bramdaen, Hants.
Christopher Norris, Surrey.
with E. & A. Silberman Galleries, New York, as Jacob Jordaens (all of the above according to a letter provided by the Arizona State University Art Museum).
Lewis J. Ruskin (1903-1981) and his wife, Lenore Ruskin Heavenrich, née Ginsburg (1920-1993), Scottsdale, by whom gifted in 1965 to the Arizona State University Art Museum.

Exhibited

Hagerstown, MD, Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, European Masterpieces, October-November 1956, no. 12, as Jacob Jordaens.
Tempe, Arizona State University Gamage Auditorium Foyer, Christmas in Art, 4-7 December 1965, as Jacob Jordaens.
Tempe, Arizona State University Gamage Auditorium Foyer, Christmas Pictures, December 1966, as Jacob Jordaens.
Tempe, Arizona State University Board of Regents Office, on exhibition, 1968, as Jacob Jordaens.

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Lot Essay

This candlelit Adoration of the Shepherds has been trimmed along the right edge, removing the figure of the Virgin Mary from the rest of the scene. The full composition is known from a drawing in the Staatsgalerie im Schloss Johannisburg, Aschaffenburg (inv. no. Z VIII 22), and from a panel last recorded in the collection of the Dutch painter and art dealer Dorus Hermsen (1871–1931), both of which include the Virgin and another male figure at the far right.

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