Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus Bruges 1523 - 1605 Florence

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Description

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus
the adoration of the shepherds
bears old attribution: Cavedone
pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk and touches of red chalk, heightened with white

Exhibited

New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, Sixteenth Century Italian Drawings, Form and Function, 1974, cat. no. 22

Catalogue Note

Although there is no concrete evidence that connects this drawing to an existing painting or print, the style is typical of Stradanus's very loose and free sketches. It also has some very general compositional similarities to both a signed and dated painting of 1586 and to its pendant, Adoration of the Magi, commissioned for the Palazzo della Gherardesca in Florence (see Alessandra Baroni Vannucci, Jan Van Der Straet detto Giovanni Stradano, Milan 1997, p. 169, cat. no. 50).