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Journal of Undergraduate Research

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Eustache Le Sueur, Adoration of the Shepherds, painting

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Fine Arts and Communications

Abstract

The painting, Adoration of the Shepherds, in Brigham Young University’s Museum of Art collection came to the museum as an anonymous painting in 2004. Little was known regarding the provenance of this work except that it had most recently been in the collection of Gloria Teichert. Preliminary discussions during the acquisition process suggested that it was most likely a seventeenth-century French painting in the style of such classicists as Eustache Le Sueur. This prominent artist of the French baroque era was one of the founders of the French Academy. Even with this preliminary attribution, however, much work was still needed to firmly establish Le Sueur as the artist of this work. Therefore, in 2008, I traveled to France in order to carefully study the stylistic characteristics of numerous known paintings by this artist.

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