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Description: Orange spot. Upper left corner torn. Laid down. Inscribed: "Cavedon" in pen and brown ink at bottom centre. Numbered: 15 (struck out) in pen and black ink in lower right corner. Numbered: 1077 in pen and black ink in lower right corner. (Sparre). 
This drawing is presumably a preparatory study for a painting in the Prado. A slight variation on the theme can be found in a painting in the "Capella Arrigoni" (1611-1614) in the Bolognese church of "San Paolo Maggiore". Cavedone also executed a companion piece for this church, representing the Adoration of the Magi. Two drawings at Christ Church, Oxford, together with one in the Louvre are considered studies for this painting, although they are substantially different. Our drawing is closer to the final composition, and clearly represents a later stage in the preparatory process. The Louvre drawing, like the Stockholm sheet, figured in the Crozat sale of 1741. An Adoration of the Shepherds by Cavedone was also included in Tessin´s gift of 1748 to Queen Lovisa Ulrika (no 13). [Bjurström, It. Drawings, cat. no. 1459]

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