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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
Museum
Adoration of the Shepherds
c. 1650
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Provenance
PublicProvenance event
Marquis de Villette, Château de Villette, Oise
1875
Jean Baptiste Angiot, Paris (sale: Hotel Drouot, Paris, March 1-2, 1875, cat. no. 41, as Benedetto C...
1875–1968
Private Collection, Buenos Aires
1968
[Frederick Mont, New York], sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1968.
Source provenance text
Marquis de Villette, Château de Villette, Oise Jean Baptiste Angiot, Paris (sale: Hotel Drouot, Paris, March 1-2, 1875, cat. no. 41, as Benedetto Castiglione) Private Collection, Buenos Aires [Frederick Mont, New York], sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1968.
The Cleveland Museum of Artconfidence 100%
Exhibitions
PublicSource exhibition text
Year in Review for 1968. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 29-March 9, 1969). 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). 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). 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).
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Cavallino worked in Naples where he was not well known during his lifetime, but was alert to the work of contemporaries whose innovations he transformed with extraordinary delicacy and charm. The adoration of the shepherds is a traditional subject, but here Cavallino shows it in a new light. The focus is on Mary, indicating that she alone is aware of the angels who flutter above with ribbons proclaiming <em>Gloria in Excelsis Deo</em> (Glory to God in the highest). Joseph and the shepherds stolidly regard the child, but the sweetness of Mary's expression simultaneously reveals her love, pride, and humility.
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0 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 4 structured provenance events · 4 structured exhibitions.
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