id: 143644 accession number: 1968.100 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1968.100 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:20.170000 Adoration of the Shepherds, c. 1650. Bernardo Cavallino (Italian, 1616–1656). Oil on canvas; framed: 151 x 172 x 7 cm (59 7/16 x 67 11/16 x 2 3/4 in.); unframed: 126.8 x 148.3 cm (49 15/16 x 58 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1968.100 title: Adoration of the Shepherds title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1650 creation date earliest: 1645 creation date latest: 1655 current location: 217 Italian Baroque creditline: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund copyright: --- culture: Italy, 17th century technique: oil on canvas department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - Italian 16th & 17th Century type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Bernardo Cavallino (Italian, 1616–1656) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 151 x 172 x 7 cm (59 7/16 x 67 11/16 x 2 3/4 in.); Unframed: 126.8 x 148.3 cm (49 15/16 x 58 3/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signed left on ox: "BC [monogram]" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1968 opening date: 1969-01-29T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1968. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 29-March 9, 1969). title: When Angels Bent Near the Earth to Touch Their Harps of Gold: The Christmas Story opening date: 1981-12-01T05:00:00 When Angels Bent Near the Earth to Touch Their Harps of Gold: The Christmas Story. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 1, 1981-January 17, 1982). title: Painting in Naples from Caravaggio to Giordano opening date: 1982-10-02T04:00:00 Painting in Naples from Caravaggio to Giordano. Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (October 2-December 12, 1982). title: Bernardo Cavallino of Naples, 1616-1656 opening date: 1984-11-14T05:00:00 Bernardo Cavallino of Naples, 1616-1656. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 14-December 30, 1984); Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (January 26-March 24, 1985); Museo Pignatelli Cortes, Napoli, Italy (April 24-June 26, 1985). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Marquis de Villette, Château de Villette, Oise date: footnotes: citations: Jean Baptiste Angiot, Paris (sale: Hotel Drouot, Paris, March 1-2, 1875, cat. no. 41, as Benedetto Castiglione) date: -1875 footnotes: citations: Private Collection, Buenos Aires date: 1875-1968 footnotes: citations: [Frederick Mont, New York], sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1968 date: 1968 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio date: 1968- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 117 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n141 Lurie, Ann Tzeutschler. "Bernardo Cavallino: Adoration of the Shepherds." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 56, no. 4 (April 1969): 136-50. page number: Reproduced: P. 138, fig. 4; p. 142, fig. 10; p. 143, fig. 12b, p. 148-149; Mentioned: P. 136-150 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152269 Causa, Raffaello. La pittura del Seicento a Napoli dal naturalismo al barocco ; La natura morta a Napoli nel Sei e nel Settecento. [Napoli]: Società editrice storia di Napoli, 1972. page number: 944 url: Acquisizioni 1960-1975. [Napoli]: Società editrice napoletana, 1975. page number: 256 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 137 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n157 Ebbinge Wubben, J. C., and Benedict Nicolson. Le choix d'un amateur éclairé: oeuvres de la collection Vitale Bloch provenant du Musée Boymans-van Beuningen avec quelques apports de la Fondation Custodia : [exposition] Institut Néerlandais, Paris, 10 octobre-25 novembre 1979. Paris: L'Institut, 1979. page number: 34 url: Gregori, Mina. La Fondazione Roberto Longhi a Firenze. Milano: Electa, 1980. page number: 298 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. page number: Reproduced; p. 328; Mentioned: p. 329 url: Schloder, John E. Baroque Imagery. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1984. page number: 15-17, 34 url: Spinosa, Nicola. La Pittura napoletana del '600. Milano: Longanesi, 1984. page number: 157 url: Lurie, Ann Tzeutschler, Grace G Fowler, Ann Percy. Bernardo Cavallino of Naples, 1616-1656. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1984. page number: cat. no. 79, repr. [Italian edition, cat. no. 45, repr.] url: Herzog Anton-Ulrich-Museum Braunschweig. Europäische Malerei des Barock: aus dem Nationalmuseum in Warschau. Braunschweig: Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, 1988. page number: 50, 51 n.12 url: La Pittura in Italia: Il Seicento. Milano: Electa, 1988. page number: 486, 517 n.32 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: The Museum, 1991. page number: 93 url: Chong, Alan. European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993. page number: 32 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1968.100/1968.100_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1968.100/1968.100_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1968.100/1968.100_full.tif