The Birth of the Virgin

Netherlandish School

National Gallery

circa 1520

Saint Anne is dressed in white lying in a crimson-draped tall bed. She hands Baby Mary to a woman in blue and yellow. In the foreground, one woman pours water into a basin and another takes a cloth out a basket. The windows on the left and right illustrate Bible passages, Noah on the left and Balaam on the right.

• Medium: oil on wood
• Dimensions: 67 x 43 cm
• ArtFunded in: 1922
• Presented by Sir Henry H Howorth through The Art Fund

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