The Virgin of the Nativity, probably ca. 1500, Tempera and gold on wood, 12 3/4 x 9 3/4 in. (32. 4 x 24. 8 cm), Paintings, Workshop of Filippino Lippi (Italian, Prato ca. 1457?1504 Florence), The picture is a fragment of a Nativity, the original composition of which is known from an early-sixteenth-century copy in the Musee du Petit Palais in Avignon. The Virgin was shown kneeling on the pavement adoring the Christ Child, who was embraced by the infant Saint John the Baptist