material used: oil paint / main subject: Nativity of Jesus

instance of: painting (89) | reredos (3) | triptych (3) | panel painting (1) | lost artwork (1) | winged altarpiece (1) | painting series (1)

commissioned by: Paumgartner family (1)

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

movement: Flemish Primitives (7) | Early Renaissance (2) | High Renaissance (2) | Baroque (1) | mannerism (1) | classicism (1) | Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (1) | Les Nabis (1) | German Renaissance (1)

genre: religious art (88) | donor portrait (1) | religious painting (1)

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

artist: anonymous (8) | Gerard David (3) | Sandro Botticelli (2) | Jacopo Tintoretto (2) | Parmigianino (2) | Paul Gauguin (2) | Hans Memling (2) | Fra Diamante (2) | Lorenzo Lotto (2) | Juan Correa de Vivar (2) | El Greco (1) | Albrecht Dürer (1) | Piero della Francesca (1) | Fra Bartolomeo (1) | Cima da Conegliano (1) | Antonio da Correggio (1) | Bernardino Luini (1) | Nicolas Poussin (1)

depicts: Virgin Mary (25) | Child Jesus (20) | woman (16) | boy (15) | angel (12) | Joseph (9) | ox (6) | Jesus Christ (5) | donkey (5) | shepherd (4) | man (3) | star (2) | night (2) | domestic sheep (2) | biblical Magi (2) | Annunciation (2) | lantern (2) | Annunciation to the shepherds (2)

collection: Department of Paintings of the Louvre (10) | Museo del Prado (7) | National Gallery (6) | Bavarian State Painting Collections (5) | Hermitage Museum (3) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (3) | Rijksmuseum (3) | National Gallery of Art (3) | Samuel H. Kress Collection (3) | Uffizi Gallery (3) | Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon (2) | Museum of Fine Arts (2) | Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (2) | Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (2) | National Gallery of Armenia (2) | Cook collection (2) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (1) | National Museum in Warsaw (1)

location: Museo del Prado (7) | National Gallery (6) | Hermitage Museum (3) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (3) | Rijksmuseum (3) | National Gallery of Art (3) | Armenia (2) | Munich (2) | Museum of Fine Arts (2) | Alte Pinakothek (2) | Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (2) | Uffizi Gallery (2) | Room 709 (2) | Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon (1) | Lisbon (1) | Madrid (1) | Uffizi (1) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (1)

part of: Scenes from the Life of the Virgin (1) | Arras Altarpiece (1) | Annunciation and the Adoration of the Christ-Child (1) | Polyptych of the Main Chapel of the Cathedral of Viseu (1) | None (1)

country of origin: Italy (4) | Spain (1) | United States of America (1)

exhibition history: Exposition des primitifs flamands à Bruges (4) | Exposition des primitifs français (3) | Salon of 1750 (1) | Mirabilis (1)

fabrication method: chiaroscuro (2)

time period: Renaissance (1)