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The Nativity

Gerard David

Cleveland Museum of Art

The painting depicts a scene with multiple figures. A balding man wearing a red robe kneels on the left side. A woman with long red hair and a gray dress stands on the right. A nude baby lies on a cloth between them. Two people, one in white and one in pink, kneel on the bottom left. A man with dark hair and a brown robe stands on the far left. In the background, a donkey and an ox stand in an archway on the right; two people tend sheep on a hillside behind them. A cityscape with buildings and trees is on the left, and a mountain range is in the distance. An angel hovers in the sky.

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620 × 893 px
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