genre: religious art / main subject: Nativity of Jesus

instance of: painting (186) | reredos (4) | triptych (4) | panel painting (1) | tondo (1) | lost artwork (1) | winged altarpiece (1) | painting series (1)

commissioned by: Paumgartner family (1) | Thomas Butts (1)

owned by: Robert Lehman (7) | Michael Friedsam (3) | Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (2) | National Gallery of Armenia (2) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (1) | Bruges seminary (1) | Jules Bache (1) | Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth (1) | Sir Frederick Cook, 2nd Baronet (1)

movement: Flemish Primitives (8) | Early Renaissance (2) | High Renaissance (2) | Baroque (1) | mannerism (1) | classicism (1) | Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (1) | Les Nabis (1) | German Renaissance (1)

based on: Golden Legend (1) | Saint George and the Dragon (1)

artist: anonymous (24) | Gerard David (5) | Sandro Botticelli (3) | Filippino Lippi (3) | Francesco di Giorgio (3) | Fra Angelico (2) | Jacopo Tintoretto (2) | Parmigianino (2) | Paul Gauguin (2) | Hans Memling (2) | Joos van Cleve (2) | Albrecht Altdorfer (2) | Fra Diamante (2) | Lorenzo Lotto (2) | Petrus Christus (2) | Giambattista Pittoni (2) | Zanobi Strozzi (2) | Jacopo da Sellaio (2)

depicts: Virgin Mary (41) | Child Jesus (34) | woman (26) | boy (24) | Joseph (15) | angel (13) | Jesus Christ (8) | ox (6) | man (5) | donkey (5) | shepherd (4) | star (3) | night (2) | domestic sheep (2) | mother (2) | nativity scene (2) | John the Baptist (2) | biblical Magi (2)

material used: oil paint (88) | panel (37) | wood (35) | canvas (27) | tempera (25) | gold leaf (4) | fir wood (3) | oak (3) | gold (2) | poplar wood (2) | canvas (2) | copper (1) | color (1) | silver (1) | obsidian (1)

collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art (22) | Bavarian State Painting Collections (16) | Department of Paintings of the Louvre (11) | National Gallery of Art (10) | National Gallery (9) | Museo del Prado (8) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (6) | Samuel H. Kress Collection (6) | National Museum in Warsaw (5) | Hermitage Museum (4) | Detroit Institute of Arts (4) | Uffizi Gallery (4) | Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon (3) | Museum of Fine Arts (3) | Rijksmuseum (3) | Indianapolis Museum of Art (3) | Minneapolis Institute of Art (3) | Andrew W. Mellon collection (3)

location: Metropolitan Museum of Art (22) | National Gallery of Art (10) | Alte Pinakothek (9) | National Gallery (9) | Museo del Prado (8) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (4) | Hermitage Museum (4) | Detroit Institute of Arts (4) | Museum of Fine Arts (3) | National Museum in Warsaw (3) | Rijksmuseum (3) | Indianapolis Museum of Art (3) | Minneapolis Institute of Art (3) | Uffizi Gallery (3) | Room 709 (3) | Armenia (2) | Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon (2) | Munich (2)

part of: Wurzach Altar (1) | Annunziata Polyptych (1) | Dossale di Badia Ardenga (1) | Scenes from the Life of the Virgin (1) | Diptych (1) | Annunciation and the Adoration of the Christ-Child (1) | Polyptych of the Main Chapel of the Cathedral of Viseu (1) | The San Pier Maggiore Altarpiece (1) | None (1) | Nativity scenes attributed to Zanobi Strozzi (1) | Orlier altar (1) | Convent of Jesus Altarpiece (1) | Middle Rhine altar (1)

country of origin: Italy (7) | Spain (1) | United States of America (1)

exhibition history: Exposition des primitifs flamands à Bruges (4) | Exposition des primitifs français (3) | Sienese and Florentine Wood Panels (1) | Salon of 1745 (1) | Salon of 1750 (1) | Mirabilis (1)

donated by: Robert Lehman (1)

published in: European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born before 1865: A Summary Catalogue (2) | A Concise Catalogue of the European Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1) | Italian Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 3, Sienese and Central Italian Schools (1) | The Robert Lehman Collection. Vol. 1, Italian Paintings (1) | Painting and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence, 1300–1450 (1)

fabrication method: chiaroscuro (2)

time period: Renaissance (1)