The Adoration of the Shepherds

The Adoration of the Shepherds

SK-A-4849

De aanbidding der herders. Op de voorgrond een staande herder met staf, bij Maria en het kind zit een jonge herder met zijn voet op een mand. Achter slaapt Jozef tussen de ezel en het os, in de lucht engelen.

painter: Anthonie Blocklandt

1560 - 1572

oil on panel

• height 141.5 cm x width 99.1 cm x thickness 2 cm
• depth 7 cm

purchase 1987-05

Public domain

…; sale, A. C. D. Eymael (1830-1904, Liège), Liège, 6 November 1905 sqq., no. 7, as Italiaanse school;…; collection Jules Steurs-van den Broeck (1872-1952), Antwerp, 1935, 1938;{Antwerpen 1935, p. 65, no. 233, as Pieter Aertsen; Note RKD as Maarten van Heemskerck.}…; from Elisabeth Verheyen, née Dockx, Antwerp, fl. 60,000, to the museum, May 1987

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