Crèche
Neapolitan- Date
- 1725–75, with later additions
- Medium
- Mixed media including cloth, cork, gouache, metal, moss, papier-mâché, polychrome, terracotta, straw, watercolor, wax, and wood
- Dimensions
- Overall: 430 × 465 × 140 cm (169 5/16 × 183 1/8 × 55 1/8 in.)
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. James N. Bay and Linda and Vincent Buonanno and Family; Eloise W. Martin Legacy Fund; purchased with funds provided by of Ruth Ann Gillis and Michael McGuinnis and Mrs. Robert O. Levitt; Charles H. and Mary F. Worcester Collection Fund
Subjects
crèches
Jesus
Christmas
nativity scenes
religious scenes
angels
animals
architectural fragments
babies
cats
cherubs
Chicken
child
children
classical
dog
donkeys
fathers
flowers
food
hats
holy family
horse
horses
instruments
kings
labor
men
monkeys
mother
music
musical instruments
plates
putti
religion
religious
religious figures
royal
ruins
saints
sculpture
sheep
sons
travel
Virgin and child/Madonna and child
woman
women
work