The Nativity

Description For more information on this painting, please see Federico Zeri's 1976 catalogue no. 241, pp. 363-364.

Exhibitions

• The Life of Christ. The Washington County Museum, Hagerstown. 1951.
• The Christmas Story in the Language of Art. The Washington County Museum, Hagerstown. 1950.

Provenance Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1881 catalogue: no. 136; 1897 catalogue: no. 71, as Baldassarre Peruzzi]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Inscriptions [Transcription] Below the choir of angels: ADORATE EV[M] OMNES ANGELI EIVS; [Translation] Adore Him, All Ye His Angels

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902