Detail of a Nativity Relief in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2009

Title: Nativity

Date: ca. 1450

Geography: Burgundy, France

Culture: French

Medium: Limestone with later paint and gilding

Dimensions: Overall: 17 3/4 x 25 7/8 x 7 1/4 in. (45.1 x 65.7 x 18.4 cm)

Classification: Sculpture-Stone

Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1916

Accession Number: 16.32.158

On View

Description:

The relief includes the unusual subject of Joseph warming the infant Jesus’ clothes at a fire. During the fifteenth century Joseph became increasingly significant and the subject of devotion.

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