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Collections

The Master of the Baltimore and Orléans Triptychs
Plaque: Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherdscirca 1480/90

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Painted enamel plaque depicting the Nativity, with a kneeling woman in blue and burgundy, a bearded man with a staff, and a haloed infant on green grass, set against gold architecture

The Master of the Baltimore and Orléans Triptychs, Plaque: Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds, circa 1480/90, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, William Randolph Hearst Collection, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
The Master of the Baltimore and Orléans Triptychs
Title
Plaque: Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds
Place Made
France, Limoges
Date Made
circa 1480/90
Medium
Polychrome enamel and gold on copper
Dimensions
8 1/8 x 6 5/16 in. (20.64 x 16.03 cm)
Credit Line
William Randolph Hearst Collection
Accession Number
51.13.4
Classification
Furnishings
Collecting Area
Decorative Arts and Design
Selected Bibliography
  • Caroselli, Susan L. The Painted Enamels of Limoges: a Catalogue of the Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1993.
  • Raguin, Virginia Chieffo. Stained Glass before 1700 in the Collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the J.Paul Getty Museum. Vol. 1, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. London: Harvey Miller Publishers for American Corpus Vitrearum, Inc., 2024.