Preparing the Bath for the Christ Child
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1825
name: label: Artist
content: Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: At left, women prepare the bath in a large, round basin, while another woman brings the water. At right are two seated figures, one holding the child. The Star of Bethlehem is visible through an opening in the background.
place: label: made in
content: Rome, Italy
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1938-88-7385
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite, pen and bistre, brush and gray wash on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 9.5 × 13.1 cm (3 3/4 × 5 3/16 in.)