HOME
What's New Subscribe to Our Web Site Newsletters Calendar of Events Recent Acquisitions Videos and Podcasts About the Gallery Jan Lievens: A Dutch Master Rediscovered Pompeii and the Roman Villa: Art and Culture around the Bay of Naples
Global Navigation Collection Exhibitions Planning a Visit Programs Online Tours Education Resources Gallery Shop Support the Gallery NGA Kids
National Gallery of Art - THE COLLECTION
image of The Nativity
Perino del Vaga (artist)
Italian, 1501 - 1547
The Nativity, 1534
oil on panel transferred to canvas
Overall: 274.4 x 221.1 cm (108 1/16 x 87 1/16 in.) framed: 302 x 248.9 x 9.8 cm (118 7/8 x 98 x 3 7/8 in.)
Samuel H. Kress Collection
1961.9.31
From the Tour: Mannerism
Object 4 of 8

1841Catalogue des tableaux composant la galerie de feu son eminence Cardinal Fesch. Rome, 1841:32
1854Waagen, G.F. Art Treasures of Great Britain. 3 vols. London, 1854:II:233
1959Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 103, repro.
1965Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 103
1968European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 91, repro.
1968Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XV-XVI Century. London, 1968: 108-109, fig. 261.
1975European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 262, repro.
1979Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: I:358-359, II:pl. 258
1984Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. (rev. ed.) New York, 1984: 182, no. 206, color repro.
1985European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 302, repro.
1985Wolk, Linda. "The Pala Baciadonne by Perino del Vaga." Studies in the History of Art 18 (1985):29-57, repro.
1992National Gallery of Art, Washington. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 98, repro.

Full Screen Image
Artist Information
Detail Images
Exhibition History
Inscription
Location
Narratives
Provenance

«back to gallery»continue tour