# Nativity [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [ANGUIER, Michel]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Marble, height 160 cm ## Commentary This group, now in the St Roch, was originally executed for the high altar in the Val-de-Grâce, Paris. The mood which this Baroque group expresses is not the ecstasy of the Roman Baroque but a sort of pathos which is purely French and, like Le Sueur's religious sentiment, seems to prepare the way for the eighteenth century. ## Related artworks - [Amphitrite]() - [Ceres]() - [Interior decoration]() - [Nativity \(detail\)]() - [Nativity]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()