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The Nativity with God the Father and Angels, after 1647. Etching on ivory laid paper.
Etching on ivory laid paper · Plate: 29.5 × 20.7 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- The Nativity with God the Father and Angels
- Artist
- Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione Italian, 1609-1664
- Date
- after 1647
- Medium
- Etching on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- Plate: 29.5 × 20.7 cm (11 5/8 × 8 3/16 in.); Sheet: 33.5 × 24.4 cm (13 1/4 × 9 5/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Harold Joachim Purchase Fund
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1609–1664
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.