G1056: Nativity
PrintsThe woman (Mary) and the baby (Jesus) are situated in the lower left in an empty stall in a cut away view; an elder shepherd kneels in the background, behind him barn animals occupy a stall. The nativity is set within a perspective scene of an old dilapidated European-style inn. A man pours water from a village well into a jug at the center bottom of the scene. A ruined archway, center middle ground, reveals a village and trees in the distance. Small trees and grasses sprout from the top of the ruin overhead.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- G1056
- People
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Albrecht Dürer, German (Nuremberg 1471 - 1528 Nuremberg)
- Title
- Nativity
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1504
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, Germany
- Culture
- German
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/273760
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Engraving printed in black ink on white antique laid paper
- Technique
- Engraving
- Dimensions
- plate: 18.3 × 12 cm (7 3/16 × 4 3/4 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: in plate, on tablet hanging from structure: 1504 / AD [monogram]
- collector's mark: verso, black stamp: Crown / PAAR [Prince Karl de Paar (Lugt 2009)]
- inscription: verso, brown ink: 1056
- inscription: verso, graphite: [illeg., presumably E] H. Greenleaf [see Lugt 5207]
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Prince de Paar. no. 1633
Francis Calley Gray, bequest to nephew, 1856.
William Gray, gift to Harvard University, 1857.
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- State
- Meder b-c
- Standard Reference Number
- Bartsch 2, Schoch 40, Meder 2, Sreauss 41
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
- Object Number
- G1056
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Exhibition History
- Fine Art for Harvard: The Gray Collection of Engravings, Fogg Art Museum, 09/02/1986 - 11/02/1986
Verification Level
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