The Adoration of the Shepherds

Inscription: At upper right (on the piece of paper filling out the cut corner), inscribed "39" in pen and brown ink (18th-century handwriting?); at lower center, inscribed "Gerrit Pieterse" in pen and brown ink (17th-century handwriting); at lower right, dated "1599" in pen and brown ink, by the artist. Verso: at upper right (on the pieces of paper strengthening the upper right corner), inscribed "1s 6 d" [?] in pen and brown ink (17th- or 18th-century handwriting); at center, inscribed "[...] / 3-0" [?] in black chalk or graphite (18th-century handwriting?); below (on the piece of paper strengthening the lower edge), inscribed "Bloomart" in graphite or black chalk (18th- or 19th-century handwriting); at lower right (on the piece of paper strengthening the lower edge), inscribed "a b" in pen and brown ink (18th-century handwriting?); below, inscribed "No 72" in pen and brown ink (18th-century handwriting?); below, inscribed "No 36" in pen and brown ink (19th-century handwriting)

Marking: Verso: at lower center, the collector's mark of Jean-Jacques Senon ("JJS" between two brackets, stamped in blue ink; not in Lugt)

Jean-Jacques Senon (French); his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, April 2, 2012, lot 13; Vendor: Katrin Bellinger Kunsthandel , Munich

Hôtel Drouot, Paris Collection de dessins anciens de Monsieur S[enon]. Sale cat. Paris, April 2, 2012, cat. no. 13, ill.

Pieter Dirksen Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: de Orpheus van Amsterdam. Cumeborg, 2021, ill. p. 129 (see also pp. 43-59 for biographical information about the artist).