Adoration of the Shepherds

<span>Private collection of an English dealer and marchand amateur; 30 November 1966, purchased in London, England at Sotheby &amp; Co. auction, "Important Old Master Paintings," (lot 29, "Various Properties") by P. &amp; D. Colnaghi &amp; Co., Ltd. of London, England; 1970, sold by P. &amp; D. Colnaghi &amp; Co to the Elvehjem Art Center [now known as the Chazen Museum of Art]. [Last researched by Chazen staff 4 March 2022] </span>

• Rogers, Millard F., Jr. "Paintings at the Elvehjem Art Center, University of Wisconsin." The Magazine Antiques. Vol. CVIII, No. 6, December (1975). p. 1154, fig. 9
• Watrous, James. "A Century of Capricious Collecting 1877-1970: From the Gallery in Science Hall to the Elvehjem Museum of Art," Madison, WI: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1987. p. 27, fig. 29
• Committee on Institutional Cooperation. "Paintings from Midwestern University Collections: Seventeenth-Twentieth Centuries." Evanston, Ill.: Committee on Institutional Cooperation, 1973. pp. 38-39, cat. no. 10
• Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Handbook of the Collection." Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Madison, 1990. no. 48
• Art Quarterly, XXXIV. "Recent Accessions of American & Canadian Museums." Art Quarterly, XXXIV, no. 1 (1971). p. 131, no. 126
• Yale University Art Gallery. "A Taste for Angels: Neapolitan Painting in North America 1650-1750." exh. cat. New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery, 1987. pp. 171-172, no. 68
• Colnaghi & Co., P. & D. "Paintings by Old Masters." London: P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., 1967. pl. VII; no. 8
• Blumenthal, Arthur. "In The Light of Naples: The Art of Francesco De Mura." Winter Park, FL: Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, 2016. p. 193
• Spinosa, Nicola. "Francesco Solimena (1657-1747) e le Arti a Napoli." Roma: Ugo Bozzi Editore, 2018. p. 230, no. 67

• In the Light of Naples: The Art of Francesco de Mura: Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, 9/17/2016–11/26/2017
• Paintings from Midwestern University Collections: 17th-20th Centuries: Committee on Institutional Cooperation and Member Universities, 10/3/1973–4/27/1975
• Paintings by Old Masters: P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., 5/16/1967–6/2/1967

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