Currently not on view
Nativity
Altichiero, active Italy, ca. 1364–93
y1935-18
Information
Title
Nativity
Maker
Medium
Tempera on poplar wood
Dimensions
34.5 x 39 cm (13 9/16 x 15 3/8 in.)
mount: 85 x 47 x 2.5 cm (33 7/16 x 18 1/2 x 1 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Henry White Cannon, Jr., Class of 1910, in memory of his Father
Object Number
y1935-18
Place Collected
Europe, Verona
Culture
Subject
Purchased by Jean Paul Richter (1847-1937) from a villa near Verona in January 1911 for Henry White Cannon (1850-1934), Fiesole; by descent to his son, Henry (Harry) W. Cannon, Jr. (1887-1966), Class of 1910; Donated to the Museum in 1935.
- Jean Paul Richter, A descriptive catalogue of old masters of the Italian school, (Florence: Galileiana, 1907-1914)., no. 35D; p. 9
- Evelyn Sandberg Vavalà, "A chapter in fourteenth century iconography: Verona", Art bulletin 11, no. 4 (Dec., 1929): p. 376-412., p. 376-412; fig. 3. fig. 10
- Frank Jewett Mather, Jr., "Veronese primitives in the Cannon Collection", Art in America 24 (1936)., p. 50-52
- Jean Paul Richter, The Cannon Collection of italian paintings of the Renaissance: mostly of the Veronese School..., (Princeton, NJ: Princetion University Press, 1936)., no. 4; p. 9-10; fig. 4
- B. B. Fredericksen and F. Zeri, Census of pre-nineteenth-century Italian paintings in North American collections, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972)., p. 119
