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The Nativity and the Procession of the Magi
The Nativity and the Procession of the Magi
The Nativity and the Procession of the Magi

The Nativity and the Procession of the Magi

Artist (Italian, 1444/1445–1510)
Date1480s
MediumTempera on panel
DimensionsDiameter: 49 1/2 in. (125.7 cm)
Frame Diameter: 70 1/8 in. (178.1 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineGift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation
Object numberGL.60.17.26
On View
On view
Collections
ProvenanceJohn Francis Austen, Capel Manor, Horsmonden, Kent; Austen sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 3/18/21, lot 77 [apparently bought in by the Austen estate’s trustees, though listed in one catalogue as “Wells...2152.10]; Christie, Manson & Woods, London 7/10/31, lot 45 (sold to Smith [Lightbown says Briggs, same price], £892.10s); Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, London; [Douglas 1946, cites as in the Stogdon col., Harrow-on-the-Hill;] International Financing Co., S. A., Panama; Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York, 1956; Kress Foundation gift to NCMA, 1961.
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