About the Artwork
Adoration of the Shepherds
between 1615 and 1625
Carlo Bononi
1569-1632
Italian
Unknown
Oil on wood panel
Unframed: 11 7/8 × 9 11/16 inches (30.1 × 24.6 cm) Framed: 18 5/8 × 16 1/2 × 2 1/8 inches (47.3 × 41.9 × 5.4 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund
65.95
Public Domain
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Provenance
ca. 1935, possibly a private collection (Germany)
as late as 1959, Professor Herman Voss (Munich, Germany)
by 1962, (Frederick Mont, New York, New York)
1965-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Wiesbaden, Städtisches Museum, Italienische Malerei des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts: eine Auswahl von Bildern aus der von der Stadt Wiesbaden un dem nassauischen Kunstverein veranstalteten Ausstellung, 1935, vol. 1, no. 22, p. 6; vol. II, pl. 6 (by count).
Maestri della Pittura del Seicento Emiliano, 2nd ed. (Exh. ?) cat., Palazzo dell'Archiginnasio. Bologna, 1959, cat. 33 [or 133?], pp. 256-257, pl. 133 [entry by A. Emiliani; owned by Hermann Voss].
A Loan Exhibition: Baroque Painters of Bologna and Neighboring Cities. Exh. cat., Finch College Museum of Art. New York, 1962, cat. 4 [entry by R. Manning; lent by Frederick Mont].
Emiliani, A. Carlo Bononi. Ferrara, 1962, p. 56, no. 55, pl. 37.
Art In Italy, 1600-1700. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1965, cat. 90, pp. 91, 92, (repr.) [entry by Dwight Miller].
Fredericksen, B. & F. Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. 1972, p. 32 [as by Carlo Bonone].
I dipinti reggianti del Bonone e del Guercino. Exh. cat., Basilica della B. V. della Ghiara. Reggio Emilia, 1982, p. 38.
Bissell, R. W., A. Derstine, and D. Miller. Masters of Italian Baroque Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2005, pp. 10, 11 (note 16), 32-33, cat. no. 10 [entry by Ward Bissell].
Derstine, Andria. "The Detroit Institute of Arts and Italian Baroque Painting." In Buying Baroque: Italian Seventeenth-Century Paintings Come to America, ed. Edgar Peters Bowron. University Park, 2017, p. 99.
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Carlo Bononi, Adoration of the Shepherds, between 1615 and 1625, oil on wood panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, 65.95.
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