Adoration of the kings

Title

Adoration of the kings

Draughtsman

• Gaspare Diziani ?

Verso

Liegender männlicher Akt und männlicher Rückenakt

Part Number / Total

11 / 126

Period Produced

• 18th century

School

• Baroque

Object Type

• drawing

Material

• ink?
• Indian ink?
• graphite?
• chalk?
• Vergé paper
• handmade paper

Technique

• pen drawing
• washing
• pencil drawing
• graphite drawing?
• chalk drawing?

Geographic Reference

• Venetian

Production Reason

• composition study

Captions Added Later

Verso bezeichnet mit der zugehörigen Inventarnummer (mit Bleistift)

Watermark

• Nicht geprüft

Institution

• Städel Museum

Departement

• Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

• Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Creditline

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright

Public Domain

Acquisition

Acquired in 1907

Genre

• historical narration
• Biblical portrayal

Persons Shown

• Mary
• Christ Child
• Three Wise Men
• Caspar
• Melchior
• Balthazar

Illustrated Passage

• Bibel, Neues Testament, Matthäus 2,1-12

Primary

• 73B57 adoration of the kings: the Wise Men present their gifts to the Christ-child (gold, frankincense and myrrh)

Historic Attribution

• Venetian, 18th century draughtsman