The Newborn Child
c. 1645 · Oil on canvas · Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes
The whole painting, uncropped, on a printed cream mat with its title beneath.
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About this work
- Artist
- Georges de La Tour (1593–1652)
- Year
- c. 1645
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 76 × 91 cm
- Collection
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes
- Movement
- Baroque
Two women sit in the dark beside a newborn baby wrapped tightly in white swaddling bands. The young mother, in a red dress, holds the child on her lap and looks down at it. The older woman on the left raises one hand in front of a hidden light, and its glow falls on the baby's face and the red cloth. There are no halos, no stable and no animals. The museum in Rennes identifies the women as the Virgin and her mother, Saint Anne, with the infant Christ. Georges de La Tour, who worked in Lunéville in the Duchy of Lorraine, painted it around 1645. The picture was long credited to the Le Nain brothers. In 1915 the German art historian Hermann Voss identified La Tour as its author. It hangs in the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rennes.
This print reproduces the whole work, uncropped, from a high-resolution scan of the original. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
A swaddled baby glowing between two women in deep red and brown against a plain black ground. Quiet enough for a bedroom, landing or study, and natural above a mantel at Christmas; pair it with La Tour's Magdalene with the Smoking Flame in black frames.
Size, framing & materials
- Style
- Baroque painting
- Era
- 17th century (c. 1645)
- Orientation
- Landscape
- Mood
- grand
- Rooms
- bedroom, hallway or entryway, study or library, living room, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. Prints at 16×12, 24×18 in — 16×12 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 24×18 above a console or sideboard. See it to scale on your wall →
Framing. The gallery ground is part of the print, so frame it without a mat — black suits the deep tones of this period; dark wood warms it.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
- Restored in-house from the original painting, cleaned and colour-trued at museum resolution
- Museum-quality archival paper: heavyweight, acid-free, resists yellowing
- Framed option: wood frame in black or dark wood, 12 mm wide and 22 mm deep, with a plexiglass front and no mat; the print is mounted inside and the frame's outside measures the listed size
- Made to order; colours may vary slightly from screen
