Adoration of the Shepherds

Hendrik van Balen I (Attributed to) . Belgium. ca. 1605. pen and brown ink, brown wash over black and white chalk on blue laid paper. Bequest of the Honorable James Bowdoin III. 1811.57.

Marks/Inscriptions

• "Rotten hammer fe" (inscription, recto, bottom left edge, pen and brown ink)

Provenance

• James Bowdoin III (Collector, Boston) -1811
• Bowdoin College Museum of Art (Museum, Brunswick, Maine) 1811-

Exhibition History

• Old Master Drawings at Bowdoin College. (5/17/1985, 6/29/1986)

Bibliography

Johnson, Henry. Catalogue of the Bowdoin College Art Collections Part I: The Bowdoin Drawings. Brunswick, ME: Bowdoin College, 1885, cat. no. 16, as Rottenhammer

Descriptive Catalogue of the Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings and of the Walker Collection. 4th Edition. Brunswick, ME: The Record Press, 1930, cat. no. 76, as Rottenhammer

Becker, David P. Old Master Drawings at Bowdoin College. Brunswick, ME: Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1985, cat. no. 119, 209, as Copy after Rottenhammer