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Sketch for an Adoration of the Sheperds
Domenico Tintoretto, Italian, 1560–1635
x1948-1920
Information
Title
Sketch for an Adoration of the Sheperds
Maker
Medium
Brush and cream, black, dark brown and dark red oil paint on yellow-gray prepared paper
Dimensions
38.4 × 19.8 cm (15 1/8 × 7 13/16 in.)
frame: 54.6 × 42.1 × 3.5 cm (21 1/2 × 16 9/16 × 1 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Frank Jewett Mather Jr.
Object Number
x1948-1920
Inscription
Inscribed recto, lower left, in brown ink: partial
and indecipherable inscription; inscribed verso,
across bottom, in brown ink (in different hands):
Ducaden [?] Giacomo [very faint] Tintoretto;
I Tintoretto; 40 40
Reference Numbers
GIbbons 687
Culture
Type
Subject
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Hans Tietze and E. Tietze-Conrat, The Drawings of the Venetian Painters in the 15th and 16th Centuries (New York: J.J. Augustin Publisher, 1944).
, p. 200, no. 832 - Felton Gibbons, Catalogue of Italian Drawings in The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1977).
- Laura Giles, Lia Markey, Claire Van Cleave, et. al., Italian Master Drawings from the Princeton University Art Museum, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2014)., p. 44, cat. no. 17; p. 45 (illus.); p. 46 (verso illus.); p. 257-258, app. no. 86; p. 258 (illus.)