The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Adoration of the Shepherds

The Adoration of the Shepherds

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Catalogue Entry

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Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Inscription: Signed and dated (lower right): C.W.E. Dietricy 176[ ]
Provenance

Monsieur Rothan (until 1866; his anonymous sale, Grand'Place, no. 18 [Victor Le Roy, expert], Brussels, December 19–21, 1866, no. 21, for Bfr 310 to Le Roy); [Étienne Le Roy, Brussels, 1866–70; sold through Léon Gauchez, Paris, to Blodgett]; William T. Blodgett, Paris and New York (1870–71; sold half share to Johnston); William T. Blodgett, New York, and John Taylor Johnston, New York (1871; sold to MMA)
References

Catalogue of the Pictures in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, No. 681 Fifth Avenue, in the City of New York. [New York], 1872, p. 40, no. 92, states that it is "from the collection of Mr. Rothan, the late Ambassador of France, in Italy".

H. Gerson. "Zur Nachwirkung von Rembrandts Kunst." Neue Beiträge zur Rembrandt-Forschung. Berlin, 1973, p. 213, pl. 44, fig. 186, points to this picture as an example of a trend to lighter and brighter pictures in Dietrich's work.

Katharine Baetjer. "Buying Pictures for New York: The Founding Purchase of 1871." Metropolitan Museum Journal 39 (2004), pp. 172, 182, 197, 206, 245, appendix 1A no. 92, ill. p. 207 and fig. 39.
Notes

A copy after this picture was with the art dealer Sabatello, Rome, in about 1960–65, attributed to Léonard Defrance.