Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00005895The Adoration of the Shepherds
Inscriptions
Signed recto, lower right, in opaque white watercolor: "Battem"; lower left on mount, in graphite: "N 144"
Provenance
Possibly Louis Fabritius Dubourg (1693–1775), Amsterdam; sold, Amsterdam, Jan. 15, 1776, lot 82; Van den Brande (possibly Johan Pieter van den Brande (1707–1758)), Middelburg; by descent to E. C. Baron van Pallandt, Haarlem; sold, Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, Sept. 26, 1972, lot 275, to Mr. Saam Nijstad (1922–2011) and Mrs. Lily Nijstad-Einhorn, The Netherlands; sold, Sotheby’s, Amsterdam, May 19, 2004, lot 111, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, Mass.; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.
Exhibition history
Amsterdam, Rembrandthuis, Kleur en Raffinement: Tekeningen uit de Unicorno collectie, Mar. 19–May 29, 1994, p. 62–63, cat. 19 (ill.); also Dordrechts Museum, Oct. 22, 1994–Jan. 15, 1995. Art Institute of Chicago, Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 49, cat. 22(ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, Mar. 15–June 15, 2014, no cat. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age", September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 33 (ill.), 43, 288, 328, cat. 6, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.
Publications
Keith Andrews, “‘Ein Rotterdamer Maler und Radierer geringer Ordnung’: On Some Gouaches by Gerrit van Battem,” in Essays in Northern European Art Presented to Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann on His Sixtieth Birthday (Davaco, 1983), p. 25. H. Verbeek, “Gerrit Battem: Constrijck Schilder, 1636–1684” (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Leiden, 1983), p. 23, cat. Hb 3.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Gerrit van Battem / Dutch, c. 1636-1684
- Date
- late 1650s
- Medium
- White and gray opaque watercolor and black ink on cream laid paper prepared with brown wash
- Dimensions
- 19.5 × 22.8 cm (7 11/16 × 9 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- prints and drawing
- Place
- Netherlands
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 2013.895
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