Title:
Adoration of the Shepherds
Maker:
Balen, Hendrik I van; painter; Flemish artist, 1575-1632
Category:
painting
Name:
painting
Date:
circa 1595
School/Style:
Flemish
Production
Note:
Formerly attributed to Rottenhammer and Breughel.
Technique:
painting (image-making)
Material(s):
oil paint; medium
copper; support
Technique
Description:
oil on copper
Dimension(s):
height, 34.6, cm
width, 27.3, cm
Acquisition:
bequeathed; 1816; Fitzwilliam, Richard, 7th Viscount
Inscription(s):
; upper centre; GLORIA IN EXCELSIS DEO
signature; lower right; (much obliterated inscription or signature in capital letters, possibly H BALEN (highly conjectural))
Documentation:
Earp, F.R.. 1902. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Pictures in the Fitzwilliam Museum.Cambridge (Cambs.): p. 11, 33
Gerson, Horst. Goodison, J.W.. 1960. Catalogue of Paintings in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Vol. I, Dutch and Flemish.Cambridge (Cambs.): p. 206
Accession:
Object Number: 412
(Paintings, Drawings and Prints)
(record id: 1094; input: 2000-01-17; modified: 2010-01-21)
Permanent
Identifier:
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