id:			97171
accession number:	1916.807
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.807
updated:		2023-03-20 14:13:59.115000

Adoration of the Shepherds, c. 1510. Hans Leonhard Schäufelein (German). Oil on wood; framed: 86 x 85.5 x 4 cm (33 7/8 x 33 11/16 x 1 9/16 in.); unframed: 58 x 56.6 cm (22 13/16 x 22 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Holden Collection 1916.807

title:				Adoration of the Shepherds
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creation date:			c. 1510
creation date earliest:		1505
creation date latest:		1515
current location:		111 German and Austrian Gothic
creditline:			Holden Collection
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culture:	Germany, 16th century
technique:	oil on wood
department:	Medieval Art
collection:	MED - Renaissance
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Hans Leonhard Schäufelein (German)  - artist

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measurements: Framed: 86 x 85.5 x 4 cm (33 7/8 x 33 11/16 x 1 9/16 in.); Unframed: 58 x 56.6 cm (22 13/16 x 22 5/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Inaugural Exhibition
	opening date:   1916-06-06T05:00:00
	<i>Inaugural Exhibition</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (June 6-September 20, 1916).

	title:		The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition
	opening date:   1936-06-26T04:00:00
	<i>The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 12, 1936).

	title:		Art and Humanism in the Renaissance
	opening date:   1962-01-23T05:00:00
	<i>Art and Humanism in the Renaissance</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 23-February 25, 1962).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	James Jackson Jarves; Mrs. Liberty E. Holden,Cleveland, 1884.Holden Collection, 1916.
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wall description:
The artist has set Christ's birth in a ruined stable, witnessed by shepherds and angels. The candle Joseph holds symbolizes the supremacy of Christ's divine radiance over earthly light. Beyond the overgrown arch of the dilapidated structure an angel announces Christ's birth to shepherds in the field. Schäufelein based his picture on the Paumgartner Nativity, a painting (now preserved in Munich) by his teacher, Albrecht Dürer. Schäufelein was born in Nuremberg, probably studied under Wohlgemut, and then became the assistant of Dürer, whose style he imitated.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Rubinstein-Bloch, Stella. <em>Catalogue of a Collection of Paintings, Etc. Presented by Mrs. Liberty E. Holden to the Cleveland Museum of Art. </em>Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1917.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 40-41, cat. no. 46
	url:		https://archive.org/details/Holden_80856/page/n50

	G. U. "The Holden Collection." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 4, no. 2 (1917): 19-34.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 21
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136067

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 460
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n84

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 107
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n131

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 107
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n131

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 125
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n145

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 167; Reproduced: p. 168
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