The Birth of Christ
about 1495 | Gerard David
Hugo van der Goes, the leading master of Netherlandish painting in the third quarter of the 15th century, created a (now lost) composition of the Birth of Christ as a nocturnal scene that was famous and admired during his lifetime. In his depiction the body of the Christ child was the main source of light, and the distribution of light and dark areas of the picture resulted from this unusual lighting situation.
Hugo van der Goes, the leading master of Netherlandish painting in the third quarter of the 15th century, created a (now lost) composition of the Birth of Christ as a nocturnal scene that was famous and admired during his lifetime. In his depiction the body of the Christ child was the main source of light, and the distribution of light and dark areas of the picture resulted from this unusual lighting situation.
Artist:
Gerard David (um 1460 Oudewater bei Gouda - 1523 Brügge) DNB
Copy after:
Hugo van der Goes (um 1440 Gent - 1482 Rode Klooster bei Brüssel) DNB
Time:
about 1495
Object Name
Painting
Culture
Early Netherlandish
Material/technology:
oak wood
Dimensions:
57 cm x 41,3 cm
Framed: 67,5 cm x 52 cm x 6 cm
Copyright
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie
Invs.
Gemäldegalerie, 904
Provenance
Coll. Leopold Wilhelm