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Presumably intended as an altarpiece, and probably a late work by the artist, The Nativity illustrates a familiarity with Netherlandish paintings.
The painting may be unfinished; it is also likely to have been damaged by over-cleaning before acquisition by the Gallery.
Descendants of the artist; Giuseppe Marini-Franceschi, Sansepolcro, 1825; Alexander Barker; bought, 1874.
Clark 1951, pp. 44-5, 208-9
Davies 1961, pp. 433-4
Paolucci 1989, p. 230
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