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Christ: Nativity
Florence, Italy
ca. 1320
245 x 176 mm
Purchased by J.P. Morgan (1867-1943) in 1919
MS M.643
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CHECKChrist: Nativity -- Three nimbed angels appear behind mountains. Ox and ass in grotto peer behind Christ Child, cross-nimbed, swaddled, in crib.
Decorated frame.
Virgin Mary, nimbed, wearing cross-inscribed veil, reclines on mattress, with her head turned away. Joseph the Carpenter, nimbed, sits on ground.