The Annunciation to the Shepherds, Cornelis Saftleven, c. 1655 - c. 1659

Identification

Title(s)

The Annunciation to the Shepherds

Object type

painting

Object number

SK-A-801

Inscriptions / marks

signature and date, lower right: ‘C SaftL[…] Fe / 16[5/3.]’
signature and date, with ligated monogram, bottom left (false?): ‘TB.1663’

Description

De verkondiging aan de herders. In een landschap knielen herders met vrouwen en kinderen voor de engel die in een wolk verschijnt. Rechts liggen schapen, geiten en koeien. In de verte slaapt een groep herders onder een afdakje.

Creation

Artist

painter: Cornelis Saftleven (signed by artist)

Dating

c. 1655 - c. 1659

Material and Technique

Physical features

oil on panel

Material

Technique

painting

Measurements

support: height 73.7 cm × width 106.9 cm
outersize: depth 5.5 cm (support incl. SK-L-1212)

Subject

What

annunciation of Christ's birth to the shepherds (and/or shepherdesses) at night; a host of singing angels in the air

Acquisition and rights

Acquisition

purchase 1884

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

…; collection Julius Otto Gottschald (?-1903), Leipzig, c. 1882;{According to the Hofstede de Groot notes in the RKD this painting was in the Gottschald Collection in Leipzig, by which he must have meant the one of Julius Otto Gottschald.}…; sale, Count Andor de Festetis, Szeleste Castle (Hungary), Amsterdam (C.F. Roos), 22 January 1884 _sqq._, no. 116, as Herman Saftleven (‘Paysage. Quelques bergers agenouillés, une marchande et des enfants en prière devant une image de Madone, suspendue au tronc d’un arbre à l’entrée d’une forêt […].’), fl. 718.75, to De Vries, for the museum;{NHA, ARS, Kop., inv. 39, pp. 342-43, no. 11 (3 March 1884).} on loan to the Centraal Museum, Utrecht, December 1924-March 1942

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Documentation

Rotterdamse meesters uit de gouden eeuw [ : 1 1994a], Nora I. Schadee, cat.nr. 43
Cornelis Saftleven, 1606-1608 : Leben und Werke : mit einem kritische Katalog der Gemälde und Zeichnungen, Wolfgang Schulz, cat.nr. 551
All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam : a completely illustrated catalogue, p. 493
K. Bauch, Studien zur Kunstgeschichte, Berlijn (1967), p. 135
G. Plietzsch, Nebenwerke Holländischer Maler des 17. Jahrhunderts, Zeitschrift für Bildende Kunst XXVII, p. 133
Verslagen omtrent 's Rijks Verzamelingen van Geschiedenis en Kunst XXIII (1900), s'Gravenhage 1901, p. 69

Persistent URL

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