Jan 31, 2002 - Sale 1923

Sale 1923 - Lot 68

Price Realized: $ 862
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
POMPEO GHITTI (ATTRIBUTED TO)
The Adoration of the Shepherds.<>

Pen and brown ink on grayish beige laid paper. 303x192 mm; 12x7 5/8 inches. Six-pointed crown with a trefoil watermark. Ex-collection Pierre Crozat (?) (Lugt 474, lower right recto) and Dr. G. L. Laporte (Lugt 1170, lower right recto). With an early attribution to Elsheimer in ink, verso.

The current work was presented by Adolphe Stein in an exhibition in London in 1969 as "Veronese School, 17th Century."