The Adoration of the Shepherds

Artist Gerrit van Honthorst (Dutch, 1590-1656)

Date1632

DimensionsH: 48 in. (121.9 cm); W: 39 in. (99.1 cm)

MediumOil on canvas

ClassificationPaintings

Credit LineBequest of Caroline Jobst Reimann

Object number

1993.57

Not on View

Published ReferencesColnaghi, New York, European Paintings 1550-1800, 1985, pp. 14-16, no. 3, illus. (col.).

Judson, J. Richard, "New Light on Honthorst," Beiträge eines Symposions aus Anlass der Ausstellung Holländische Malerei in neuem Licht. Hendrick ter Brugghen und seine Zeitgenossen, (ed. Rudiger Klessmann), Braunschweig, 1988, pp. 115, 119, fig. 157.

de Vries, Sandra, "'A Holy Family' by Gerrit van Honthorst from the Provenhuis van Nordigen' at Alkmaar," The Hoogsteder Mercury, no. 12, 1991, pp. 18, 20-22, p. 20, fig. 4.

Colnaghi, New York, Colnaghi in America, A Survey to Commemmorate the First Decade of Colnaghi, New York, (ed. Nicholas H. J. Hall), 1992, p. 62, ill. p. 63 (col.).

Judson, J. Richard and Rudolph E. O. Ekkart, Gerrit van Honthorst: 1592-1656, Doornspijk, Davaco, 1999, p. 645, no. 24, pl. II, (col.) fig. 10.

Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art; Milwaukee Art Museum; Dayton Art Institute, Sinners and Saints, Darkness and Light: Caravaggio and His Dutch and Flemish Followers, 1998-1999, no. 23, pp. 140-142, repr. p. 140 (col.) and p. 223.