Updated 14 May 2025
Currently not on display
Currently not on display
Pomponio Amalteo (attributed to)
Motta di Livenza, 1505 - San Vito al Tagliamento, 1588
Pordenone (previously attributed to)
Pordenone, 1483/1484 - Ferrara, 1539
The Adoration of the Shepherds
| Date | Second half of the 16th century |
|---|---|
| Materials and Techniques | Ink on blue paper |
| Size（cm） | 25.9 x 23.7 |
| Inscriptions | Inscribed by a later hand in ink upper right: la man propria / del Sig. gio ni An o / regilo da pordenon; on mount lower center: Pordenone; in pencil lower left：(113) / No. 9 |
| Credit Line | Ex-Matsukata Collection |
| Standard ref. | M1349 |
| Category | Drawings |
| Collection Number | D.2017-0003 |
Provenance
Robert Udney [collector’s mark lower right (Lugt 2248)]; Thomas Banks, London [collector’s mark lower right (Lugt 2423)]; Edward J. Poynter, London [collector’s mark lower left: EJP (Lugt 874)]; Poynter sale, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, London, 24–25 April 1918, lot 135, as by Giovanni Antonio Licinio da Pordenone; Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe; pledged by Matsukata to save his business, Kawasaki Dockyard Co., Ltd., Kobe and then seized by Jugo Bank, Tokyo, 1927; private collection, Japan; deposited in NMWA, 19 August 2009–18 March 2013, ref. no. 33; deposited again in NMWA, 25 January 2016, ref. no. 33; purchased by NMWA, 13 July 2017.
Bibliography
- 2019
- The Matsukata Collection: Complete Catalogue of the European Art. Kawaguchi, Masako; Jingaoka, Megumi, eds. vol. 2: Sculpture, Drawings, Prints and Decorative Arts and Other Works, Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2019, cat. no. 1349, col. repr.
- 2019
- Annual Bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 52 (Apr. 2017-Mar. 2018), 2019, List of New Acquisitions. p. 23.