The Nativity

ca. 1510 (Renaissance)

48.5 cm 84.4 cm 3 cm

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This painting follows the biblical account of the Nativity quite closely: the Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph kneel in adoration of the newborn Christ Child, who is humbly placed before a simple reed manger where an ox and ass graze on some straw; above, three music-making angels...

Painting

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Bernard Berenson (?) [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, ca. 1915 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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2
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