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    Gaspar de Crayer (Antwerp 1584 - Ghent 1669)

    Figure study for ‘The Adoration of the Shepherds’

    Description:

    red chalk heightened with white on blue paper
    350 x 305 mm

    Provenance:

    Private collection, Belgium

    Note:

    A study for the right-hand figure of a shepherd carrying a sheep in the Rijksmuseum’s The Adoration of the Shepherds, c. 1640-1650. To the left of the sheet is a separate study of a hand, which relates to the right hand of the shepherd.

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    Figure study for ‘The Adoration of the Shepherds’