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Nativity
is a devotional mid-1450s oil-on-wood and art panel painting by the
Early Netherlandish
painter
Petrus Christus
. It shows a
nativity scene
—the birth of the
Christ Child
as narrated in the
Gospels
of
Matthew
and
Luke
—with
grisaille
archways and
trompe-l'œil
sculptured reliefs. The panel, which may have once been part of a
triptych
, was acquired by
Andrew Mellon
in the 1930s. One of several hundred works from Mellon's personal collection donated to the
National Gallery of Art
in Washington,
Nativity
was restored in the early 1990s.
Painting:
Petrus Christus
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