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Bonifazio de' Pitati, called Bonifazio Veronese
(Verona circa 1487-1553 Venice)
and studio
The Adoration of the Shepherds unframed

3 December 2014, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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Bonifazio de' Pitati, called Bonifazio Veronese (Verona circa 1487-1553 Venice), and studio

The Adoration of the Shepherds
oil on canvas
109.5 x 154cm (43 1/8 x 60 5/8in).
unframed

Footnotes

Provenance
The Giovanelli Collection, Venice
Purchased by the present owner's father in 1934

Two works by Bonifazio are recorded in the Giovanelli collection, one of which is the large Sacra Conversazione from the Kress Collection now in Columbia Museum of Art. A further, weaker version of this composition is in the Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart.

We are grateful to Professor Peter Humfrey for confirming the attribution of the present painting upon inspection of colour photographs. He has suggested a possible date of 1543-4 and compares it to Bonifazio de' Pitati's Adoration of the Magi for the Palazzo dei Camerlenghi and now in the Galleria dell'Accademia, Venice (no. 287). He is planning to include it in his forthcoming catalogue raisonné on the artist, due to be published in 2015 in conjunction with Phillip Cottrell.

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