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Annunciation to the Shepherds

Attributed to Jacopo Bassano (Italian, 1510 - 1592)

Date1510-1592

MediumOil on panel

DimensionsOverall: 18 × 13 1/8 inches (45.72 × 33.34 cm)

Credit LineGift of Mrs. David M. Lighton

Object number35-39/2

On View

Not on view

Collections

European Art

Terms

DescriptionAn angel on a cloud in the upper left corner announces the birth of Christ to three startled shepherds in the foreground. There is a broken tree in the upper right part of the painting.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

No known exhibition history at this time.

Provenance

Mrs. David M. Lighton (née Gertrude Woolf, ca. 1877–1961), Kansas City, MO, by April 24, 1935;

Given by Mrs. David M. Lighton to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1935.

Published References

Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 262.

Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972), 655.

Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol.1, Art of the Occident, 5^th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 260.

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