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Adoration of the Shepherds
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Department of Paintings Sculpture & Decorative Arts
Cardinal Silvio Valenti Gonzaga Rome (d. 1756); rendered to Marchese Carlo Valenti (Mantua) 1760* sold; to ?Yver (Amsterdam May 18 1763 lots 66 and 67**). ?Northern art market. Comte de Quincey sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop; bequest to Fogg Art Museum 1943.
*Estimated at 20 scudi at the time. Ferdinando Arisi records this sale but associates it with paintings by Panini of the same subject today in the Brooklyn Museum. See Ferdinando Arisi Gian Paolo Panini e i fasti della Roma del Settecento (Rome 1986) p. 206.
**The paintings sold for 230 Dutch Florins.
Unless otherwise noted the above information is summarized by Rossella Vodret "Dopo Silvio Valenti Gonzaga: sule tracce di una collezione " in Raffaella Morselli and Rossella Vodret eds. Ritratto di una collezione: Pannini e la Galleria del Cardinale Silvio Valenti Gonzaga (Milan 2005) pp. 48-9.
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
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