The Nativity is a circa 1495 oil on panel by the painter Master of the Brunswick Diptych in the collection of the Rijksmuseum.

Behind her are the ox and donkey, and facing her are Joseph (shown young); and three angels who lean forward towards the Child Jesus.

The iconography closely resembles the revelations of Bridget of Sweden which were still popular in this period a century after she wrote them.

These include the youthful features of the Virgin, her and Joseph's praying hands, her loose blond curly hair, and the miraculously clean and painless birth with the child sprouting spontaneously from its kneeling mother's womb keeping her virginity intact with no visible umbilical cord or afterbirth.

[2] The upper right of the painting shows a distant landscape with the annunciation to the shepherds.