Nativity

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Bartolomeo Biscaino

Title

Nativity

Place

Italy (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

c. 1655

Medium

Etching on ivory laid paper

Inscriptions

Lettered upper right, in image: "Gloria in excelsis Deo"; lower left, in image: "Biscaino / 1655"; lower right, in image: "Daman ex"

Dimensions

Plate/image: 23.9 × 18.4 cm (9 7/16 × 7 1/4 in.); Sheet: 25.1 × 19.8 cm (9 15/16 × 7 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

The Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston Endowment Fund

Reference Number

2024.524

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