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Unknown
The Nativitycirca 1400

Not on view
Cream-white marble or alabaster relief sculpture depicting three figures: a haloed standing woman, a reclining bearded man in a canopied bed, and a small kneeling figure below

Unknown, The Nativity, circa 1400, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of William Randolph Hearst Foundation, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Unknown
Title
The Nativity
Place Made
England, Nottingham
Date Made
circa 1400
Medium
Alabaster with traces of polychromy and gilding
Dimensions
16 × 11 × 2 1/2 in. (40.64 × 27.94 × 6.35 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of William Randolph Hearst Foundation
Accession Number
49.26.9a
Classification
Sculpture
Collecting Area
European Painting and Sculpture
Selected Bibliography
  • Valentiner, W.R. Gothic and Renaissance Sculptures: in the Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum, 1951.
  • Schaefer, Scott, and Peter Fusco. European Painting and Sculpture in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art: an Illustrated Summary Catalogue. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1987.