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A woman in flowing robes kneels before a baby whose arms reach up in an open space under an inn.

The 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
Albrecht Dürer, German (Nuremberg 1471 - 1528 Nuremberg)
Title
Nativity
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
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
  • 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
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
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Exhibition History

  • Fine Art for Harvard: The Gray Collection of Engravings, Fogg Art Museum, 09/02/1986 - 11/02/1986

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