Adoration of the Shepherds

ca. 1690-1691

Luca Giordano Italian, 1634-1705

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European, Level 2, South Wing

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Title Adoration of the Shepherds

Artwork Date ca. 1690-1691

Artist Luca Giordano

Life Dates 1634-1705

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Italian

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 27 3/4 × 20 13/16 × 1/16 inches (70.5 × 52.9 × 0.1 cm) Framed: 37 × 31 15/16 × 2 15/16 inches (94 × 81.1 × 7.4 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 44.3

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Provenance

by 1931-1935, Dr. Fritz Haussmann (Berlin, Germany)

1935-1944, purchased by (Schaeffer Galleries [1943–1944], New York, New York, USA)

1944-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Voss, Hermann. "Spätitalienischen Gemälde in der Sammlung Dr. Fritz Haussman in Berlin," Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst 65 (1931/1932): pp. 161-168, p. 163 (ill.), 168.

Delogu, Giuseppe. "Cronache Berlinesi" Emporium: Rivista Mensile Illustrata D’Arte e di Cultura 82, no. 492 (December 1935): pp. 327-333, pp. 327 (ill.), 333.

Gems of Baroque Painting. Exh. cat., Schaeffer Galleries. New York, 1942, no. 18 (ill.).

Richardson, Edgar P. "The Adoration of the Shepherds by Luca Giordano (1632-1705)," Bulletin of the DIA 23, no. 5 (February 1944): front cover, p. 38 (ill.).

Masterpieces of Paintings and Sculpture from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1949, p. 80 (ill.).

Treasures from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1960, p. 95 (ill.). [Entry omitted from 1966 edition].

Milkovich, Michael. Luca Giordano in America: Paintings, Drawings, Prints.. Exh. cat., Brooks Memorial Art Gallery. Memphis, 1964, p. 38. [object not included in exhibition].

Moir, Alfred. "The Adoration of the Shepherds." In Art in Italy 1600–1700, ed. Frederick Cummings. New York, 1965, p. 147, no. 163 (ill.).

Ferrari, Oreste and Giuseppe Scavizzi. Luca Giordano. Naples, 1966, vol. 1: p. 128; vol. 2: pp. 167–168; vol. 3, no. 330. (ill.).

Ostrow, Stephen E. Baroque Painting: Italy and Her Influence. Exh. cat., The American Federation of the Arts. New York, 1968, unpaginated, cat. 14 (ill.).

Fredericksen, Burton B. and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, 1972, p. 86.

Scott, Glenn T. Man and Nature: A View of the Seventeenth Century. Exh. cat., Art Gallery of Hamilton. Hamilton, 1980, pp. 41–42, 72 (ill.).

"La Portantina – Grafica Antica Old Master Prints and Drawings," The Burlington Magazine 123, no. 942 (September 1981): xi.

Important Old Master Drawings. Sales cat., Christie, Manson & Woods. London, April 7, 1981, p. 9.

Fine Old Master Drawings. Sales cat., Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co. London, March 25, 1982, p. 24, no. 45.

Ferrari, Oreste. Bozzetti italiani dal Manierismo al Barocco. Naples, 1990, pp. 60, 159, 164 (ill.).

Scavizzi, Giuseppe. "New Drawings by Luca Giordano." Master Drawings 37, no. 2 (Summer 1999): pp. 103–137, p. 134.

Ferrari Oreste and Scavizzi, Giuseppe. Luca Giordano: L'opera completa. Naples, 2000, vol. 1: pp. 115, 328, no. A489; vol. 2, pp. 728–729, 946, pl. 621. [see also, 1992 edition]

Bissell, R. Ward, Andria Derstine and Dwight Miller. Masters of Italian Baroque Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2005, pp. 9, 102–103, no. 32 (ill.).

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Luca Giordano, Adoration of the Shepherds, ca. 1690-1691, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund, 44.3.