The Adoration of the Magi

Although not verifiable in Inventory C of 1772, the panel is said to come from the Museum Faesch; it has long been localized in Basel. Paul Ganz recognized in 1924 the close compositional connection with a series of drawings on woodblocks for an illustrated Terence edition in the Print Room of the Kunstmuseum Basel (Inv. Z.425–Z.556) and attributed the painting to the "Master of the Terence Illustrations." Although the attribution of the drawing cycle to the young Dürer is always w...