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Adoration of the Kings

Unidentified artist
Formerly attributed to: Diego de Siloe
Spanish
Renaissance
about 1525–30
Object Place: Europe, Burgos, Spain

Medium/Technique Stone; marble, alabaster
Dimensions 74.93 cm (29 1/2 in.)
Credit Line John Wheelock Elliot and John Morse Elliot Fund
Accession Number41.219
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsSculpture

DescriptionIn the center the Virgin with Child surrounded by three Kings with their gifts and St. Joseph in the background.
ProvenanceFernandez collection, Madrid. 1941, William Randolph Hearst (b. 1863 - d. 1951), New York; March 25, 1941, Hearst sale, Gimbel Brothers, New York, lot 272-1, to the MFA for $397.60. (Accession Date: April 10, 1941)