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Period: 17th century (5013) | 18th century (4787)

Type: chalk (1606) | ink (2963) | watercolour (2151)

Style: Spanish (151)

Subjects: Joseph, Saint (59) | Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint  (851)

Keywords
allegory (1258) | angels (1472) | clouds (222) | infants (490) | mothers (212) | religious art (2606) | religious symbolism (488) | saints (2404)

The Nativity

Circa 1700

Spanish or Portugese School (?) 18th Century

Pen and brown-black ink, grey wash over black chalk, heightened with white on buff-grey paper

height: 31.7 cm; width: 23.9 cm

Inscription
Inscription, graphite, verso:
A.Cano
67 p

Acquisition
Witt, Robert Clermont (Sir); bequest; 1952
D.1952.RW.1484

Copyright: © The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London