The Nativity, ca. 1480 – 1500

Title

The Nativity

Draughtsman

• Martin Schongauer succession

Production Place

• Nuremberg?

Period Produced

• 15th century

School

• Late Gothic

Object Type

• drawing

Material

• ink?
• Indian ink?
• Vergé paper
• handmade paper

Technique

• pen drawing

Geographic Reference

• Upper Rhine

Production Reason

• pattern sheet
• study after a copperplate engraving?
• study after a drawing?

Captions Added Later

Bezeichnet unten rechts (mit der Feder in Grau): Diss hat mein Anherr gemacht vnd mein Vatter Johann Neudorffer schenckt es mir 1554; verso bezeichnet (mit Bleistift): Martin Schongauer geb. um 1420 gest. 1488; Neudorfer

Watermark

• Nicht geprüft

Work Catalogues

• Winzinger 1962.99.74

Institution

• Städel Museum

Departement

• Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

• Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Creditline

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright

Public Domain

Genre

• historical narration
• Biblical portrayal

Persons Shown

• Mary
• Christ Child

Illustrated Passage

• Bibel, Neues Testament, Lukas 2,1-20

Primary

• 73B23 adoration of the Christ-child by Mary and Joseph

Secondary

• 31B6212 looking downwards
• 11F453 Mary kneeling (on the ground), the Christ-child lying in front of her
• 47I17(STRAW) agricultural products and by-products: straw
• 11Q21 one person praying

Historic Attribution

• Thoman Burgkmair draughtsman
• Augsburgian draughtsman
• Martin Schongauer draughtsman