id: 143784 accession number: 1968.22 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1968.22 updated: 2023-03-21 10:00:57.495000 Adoration of the Shepherds, c. 1670. Carlo Dolci (Italian, 1616–1687). Oil on canvas; framed: 108 x 90.2 x 7.7 cm (42 1/2 x 35 1/2 x 3 1/16 in.); unframed: 88.6 x 70.5 cm (34 7/8 x 27 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1968.22 title: Adoration of the Shepherds title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1670 creation date earliest: 1665 creation date latest: 1675 current location: 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 * Carlo Dolci (Italian, 1616–1687) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 108 x 90.2 x 7.7 cm (42 1/2 x 35 1/2 x 3 1/16 in.); Unframed: 88.6 x 70.5 cm (34 7/8 x 27 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage opening date: 1971-07-13T04:00:00 Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 13-September 19, 1971). title: Carlo Dolci: Firenze, 1616-1686 opening date: 2015-06-30T00:00:00 Carlo Dolci: Firenze, 1616-1686. Palazzo Pitti, Firenze, Italy (organizer) (June 30-November 15, 2015). title: The Medici’s Painter: Carlo Dolci and 17th-Century Florence opening date: 2017-02-08T05:00:00 The Medici’s Painter: Carlo Dolci and 17th-Century Florence. Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley, MA (organizer) (February 8-July 9, 2017); Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (August 4, 2017-January 14, 2018). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Exhibition of Works by the Old Masters and by Deceased Masters of the British School. Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, United Kingdom (1881). * The Medici’s Painter: Carlo Dolci and 17th-Century Florence. Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, MA (February 8-July 9, 7/9/2017); Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, NC (August 4,2018 - January 14,2019). --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: The historical significance of the Baroque painter Carlo Dolci, a precocious artist whose skill was recognized early by the leading Florentine patrons of his time, is often diminished due to his traditionalist compositions. Having gained local reputation as a talented portraitist and painter of religious narrative, Dolci's anti-Mannerist technique dismissed many of the leading Baroque trends as superfluous, retaining an unobtrusive and placid style in the manner of those before him. Having been a devout follower of the brotherhood of St. Benedict, Dolci draws upon a strict Christian iconography in his depiction of the shepherds' witness account of the birth of Christ. --Charles Eppley (January 2009) wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Waagen, Gustav Friedrich, Elizabeth Eastlake, and Algernon Graves. Treasures of Art in Great Britain: Being an Account of the Chief Collections of Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, Illuminated Mss., &C. &C. London, United Kingdom: J. Murray, 1854. page number: Mentioned: p. 15-16, vol. III url: Royal Academy of Arts. Exhibition of the Works of the Old Masters, Associated with the British School. London, United Kingdom: Printed by Wm. Clowes and Sons, 1870. page number: Reproduced: p. 198 url: Thieme, Ulrich, Felix Becker, Fred. C. Willis, and Hans Vollmer. Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Leipzig, Germany: W. Engelmann, 1907. page number: Reproduced: p. 387 url: 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. 116 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n140 “La Chronique Des Arts: Les Oeuvres d’art Entrés Dans Les Musées Du Monde Entier En 1968.” Gazette Des Beaux Arts (February 1969): 1–118. page number: Reproduced: P. 64, no. 271 url: "Accessions of American and Canadian Museums." The Art Quarterly XXXII, no. 1 (Spring 1969): 69-86. page number: Reproduced: P. 72; mentioned: P. 75 url: Pillsbury, Edmund P. Florence and the Arts; Five Centuries of Patronage. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1971. page number: Reproduced: no. 16 url: Dizionario enciclopedico Bolaffi dei pittori e degli incisori italiani dall'XI al XX secolo. Torino, Italy: G. Bolaffi, 1972. page number: Reproduced: p. 166, vol. IV 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. 140 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n160 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. 336; Mentioned: p. 337-338 url: Baldassari, Francesca. Carlo Dolci. Torino, Italy: Artema, 1995. page number: Mentioned: p. 34-35 url: Ellis, Charles S. "An 18th Century Florentine Provenance for Some Pictures in the Gerini and Cowper Collections." Paragone: mensile di arte figurativa e letteratura 83 (January 2009): 71-78. page number: Mentioned: P. 74; reproduced: Pl. 67 url: Ingendaay Rodio, Martina. I migliori pennelli: i marchesi Gerini mecenati e collezionisti nella Firenze barocca : il palazzo e la galleria, 1600-1825. Milano, Italy: Biblion, 2013. page number: Reproduced: p. 316, fig. 207 url: Baldassari, Francesca and Anthony Brierley. Carlo Dolci: complete catalogue of the paintings. Florence, Italy : Centro Di, 2015. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 86-87, no. 10 url: Straussman-Pflanzer, Eve, and Francesca Baldassari. The Medici's Painter: Carlo Dolci and 17th-Century Florence. Wellesley, Massachusetts: Davis Museum at Wellesley College, 2017. page number: Reproduced: p. 88 url: Ellis, Charles S., and Paola Gibbin. Lord Cowper: un conte inglese a Firenze nell'età dei Lumi. Firenze : Edizioni Polistampa, 2022. page number: Reproduced: unnumbered insert, tav. 15 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1968.22/1968.22_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1968.22/1968.22_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1968.22/1968.22_full.tif