Art, literature & history
Nativity (Mother and Child Surrounded by Five Figures)
c. 1902
- Dating
- Approximate date range
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Transfer drawing in brown and black ink (recto) and graphite and red chalk (verso) on cream wove paper trimmed and perimeter mounted on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 24.4 × 22.1 cm (9 5/8 × 8 3/4 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1922.4317
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Paul Gauguin. Nativity (Mother and Child Surrounded by Five Figures). Paul Gauguin; Art Institute of Chicago; Gift of Robert Allerton. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
Nativity (Mother and Child Surrounded by Five Figures) — Paul Gauguin. c. 1902.
Medium: Transfer drawing in brown and black ink (recto) and graphite and red chalk (verso) on cream wove paper trimmed and perimeter mounted on cream laid paper. Dimensions: 24.4 × 22.1 cm (9 5/8 × 8 3/4 in.).
Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.