About the Artwork
Adoration of the Shepherds
17th century
Nicolas Poussin
1594-1665
French
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 39 1/8 × 29 7/8 inches (99.4 × 75.9 cm) Framed: 49 3/4 × 39 5/8 × 4 3/8 inches (126.4 × 100.6 × 11.1 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Gift of William Suhr
F71.2
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Provenance
William Suhr (New York, New York, USA)
1971-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Rosenberg, Pierre and Marc Fumaroli. France in the Golden Age: Seventeenth-Century French Paintings in American Collections. Exh. cat., Grand Palais, Metropolitan Museum of Art and Art Institute of Chicago. New York, 1982, p. 369, no. 7 (ill.).
Rosenberg, Pierre and Richard Verdi. Nicolas Poussin 1594–1665. Exh. cat., Grand Palais. Paris, 1994–1995, pp. 208–209, (fig. 46a) (ill.), no. 46 (ill.).
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school of Nicolas Poussin, Adoration of the Shepherds, 17th century, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of William Suhr, F71.2.
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