The Nativity Artist: Girolamo di Benvenuto (Italian, Siena, 1470–1524)

ca. 1510

European Art

Not on view
Medium

Egg tempera on panel

Dimensions

23 1/2 × 17 7/8 × 1 3/4 in. (59.7 × 45.4 × 4.4 cm)

Credit Line

Bequest of Maitland F. Griggs, B.A. 1896

Accession Number

1943.259

Geography

Made in Siena, Italy

Culture

Italian, Siena

Period

16th century

Classification

Paintings

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Christie's sale, London, "Pictures by Old Masters: The Propery of the Duke of Westminster, the Earl of Clarendon and from Other Sources," 4 July 1924, lot #78; Maitland F. Griggs Collection, New York, 1924-1943.
Bibliography
  • Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1972), 600
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

religious art

Subject

nativity scene

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