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Title:The Nativity
Artist:Puccio di Simone (Italian, Florence, active by ca. 1340–died 1362)
Date:ca. 1350
Medium:Tempera on wood, gold ground
Dimensions:7 7/8 x 15 in. (20 x 38.1 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Accession Number:1975.1.105
Vicomte Bernard d'Hendecourt, Paris; purchased by Philip Lehman in 1915; Pauline Ickelheimer, New York. Acquired by Robert Lehman in 1946.
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Stefan Weppelmann. Geschichten auf Gold: Bilderzählungen in der frühen italienischen Malerei. Exh. cat.Berlin, 2005, pp. 134-6, no. 2.
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Simone Martini (Italian, Siena, active by 1315–died 1344 Avignon)
ca. 1326
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