The Nativity

Provenance

Señora O. Yturbe, Madrid.[1] (Franz M. Zatzenstein, Berlin and later London); [2] sold 1930 to (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York); purchased 15 December 1936 by The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh;[3] gift 1937 to NGA. [1] The picture seems never to have belonged to the Duchess of Parcent, as claimed in _Duveen Pictures in Public Collections of America_, New York, 1941: no. 177; see letter of April 1982 from her daughter, the Princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, in NGA curatorial files. [2] Zatzenstein was the founder of the Galerie Matthiesen, Berlin. [3] The original Duveen Brothers invoice is in Gallery Archives, copy in NGA curatorial files. See also Duveen Brothers Records, Getty Research Institute, Series II, Folder 17 (Copies NGA curatorial files).

The Nativity

Christus, Petrus

c. 1450

Accession Number

1937.1.40

Medium

oil on panel

Dimensions

painted surface: 127.6 x 94.9 cm (50 1/4 x 37 3/8 in.) | overall (panel): 130 x 97 cm (51 3/16 x 38 3/16 in.) | framed: 149.2 x 118.4 cm (58 3/4 x 46 5/8 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Andrew W. Mellon Collection