Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Figural scene; within a partially roofed-over stable is the scene from the Nativity of the Three Magi paying homage to the Christ Child, held by the Virgin Mary at left. Figure of Joseph behind her. At right, the Magi in elaborate dress and coats present gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. The interior setting and the flesh of the figures is painted in gouache, the clothing is rendered in applied cloth.
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Estate of Mrs. Lathrop Colgate Harper
- ca. 1770–90
- Accession Number
- 1957-166-40
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- figures
- Object Name
- Decoupage
- Type
- Decoupage
- Medium
- Coth and paper, brush and gouache on cardboard
- Dimensions
- 21.2 × 32.9 cm (8 3/8 × 12 15/16 in.)
- made in
- Germany
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1957-166-40
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq406775fb5-861c-4f0a-8875-e8fc03943c6c
