LONDON.- For the first time since 1971, Domenichino’s masterpiece returns to Dulwich to close the celebrations of the Bicentenary. Domenichino’s The Adoration of the Shepherds, believed in the eighteenth century to be the work of Annibale Carracci, was one of the most highly-prized paintings in the collection of Noel Desenfans and Sir Francis Bourgeois, the Gallery’s founders, in their house in Charlotte Street, London. The canvas was arguably the most important Italian seventeenth-century painting left by Desenfans and Bourgeois to Dulwich Picture Gallery in 1811. The decision of the Governors of Dulwich College to sell the painting at auction on 24 March 1971 was heavily criticised by the public and press at the time and became a topic of heated dicussion, as the will and donation of Sir Francis Bourgeois was openly contradicted. The loss of this significant painting was mitigated by the fa