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image of The Annunciation
Jan van Eyck (artist)
Netherlandish, c. 1390 - 1441
The Annunciation, c. 1434/1436
oil on canvas transferred from panel
painted surface: 90.2 x 34.1 cm (35 1/2 x 13 7/16 in.) support: 92.7 x 36.7 cm (36 1/2 x 14 7/16 in.) framed: 102.2 x 55.9 x 8.9 cm (40 1/4 x 22 x 3 1/2 in.)
Andrew W. Mellon Collection
1937.1.39
From the Tour: Netherlandish Painting in the 1400s
Object 3 of 9

1833Passavant, J. D. "Nachrichten über die alt-niederländische Malerschule." Kunst-Blatt no. 83 (1833): 320.
1843Nieuwenhuys, C. J. Description de la Galerie des Tableaux de S. M. le Roi des Pays-Bas. Brussels, 1843: 1-2.
1847Michiels, Alfred. Histoire de la peinture flamande et hollandaise. 4 vols. Paris, 1847: 2:127.
1850Catalogue des Tableaux Anciens et Modernes, de Diverses Écoles; Dessins et Statues, Formant la Galerie de feu sa Majesté Guillaume II. Amsterdam, 1850: 1, no. 1.
1858Hotho, H. G. Die Malerschule Hubert's van Eyck nebst Vorgängern und Zeitgenossen. Berlin, 1858: 2, 171.
1864Waagen, Gustav Friedrich. Die Gemäldesammlung in der Kaiserlichen Ermitage zu St. Petersburg. Munich, 1864: 115-116, no. 443.
1866Michiels, Alfred. Histoire de la peinture flamande depuis ses débuts jusqu'en 1864. 6 vols. Paris, 1866: 2:317-318.
1870Ermitage Impérial. Catalogue de la galerie des tableaux. Les Écoles germaniques. 2d ed. 3 vols. Saint Petersburg, 1870: 2:3-4, no. 443.
1872Crowe, J. A., and G. B. Cavalcaselle. The Early Flemish Painters: Notices of Their Lives and Works. 2d ed. London (2d ed.), 1872: 113-114.
1879Ris, L. Clément de. "Musée Impérial de l'Ermitage à Saint-Pétersbourg." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 19 (1879): 573-574, repro. 577 (drawing by Goutzwiller).
1887Conway, William. Early Flemish Artists and Their Predecessors of the Lower Rhine. London, 1887: 140-141.
1898Kaemmerer, Ludwig. Hubert und Jan van Eyck. Bielefeld and Leipzig, 1898: 69-71, repro.
1899Seeck, Otto. Die charakterischen Unterschiede der Brüder van Eyck. Berlin, 1899: 41, 70.
1900Friedländer, Max J. Review of Die Werke des Jan van Eyck by Karl Voll. In Repertorium für Kunstwissenschaft 23 (1900): 474.
1900Kaemmemer, Ludwig. "Die neueste Eycklitteratur." Kunstchronik 12 (8 November, 1900): cols. 67-68, 70.
1900Voll, Karl. Die Werke des Jan van Eyck. Strasbourg, 1900: 62-65.
1901Somof, A. Ermitage Inpérial. Catalogue de la galerie des tableaux. Écoles néerlandaises et école allemande. 2 vols. Saint Petersburg, 1901: 2:110-111.
1901Voll, Karl. "Jan van Eyck en France." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 25 (1901): 217-218.
1903Dvorák, Max. "Das Rätsel der Kunst der Brüder van Eyck." Jahrbuch der kunsthistorischen Sammlungen des allerhöchsten Kaiserhauses (Jahrbuch der kunsthistorischen Sammlungen in Wien) 24 (1903): 237, repro. 236 (printed in book form, Munich, 1925: 119).
1903Weale, Frances. Hubert and Jan van Eyck. New York, 1903: 30.
1904Kern, G. Joseph. Die Grundzüge der linear-perspektivischen Darstellung in der Kunst der Gebrüder van Eyck und ihrer Schule. Leipzig, 1904: 13-14, diagram pl. 7.
1906Kleinclausz, A. "Les Peintres des Ducs de Bourgogne." Revue de l'Art Ancien et Moderne 20 (1906): 258, repro. 259.
1906Voll, Karl. Die altniederländische Malerei von Jan van Eyck bis Memling. Leipzig, 1906: 36.
1906Wurzbach, Alfred von. Niederländisches Künstler-Lexikon. 3 vols. Vienna and Leipzig, 1906: 1:514.
1907"Correspondance de Belgique. L'exposition de la toison d'or à Bruges." La Chronique des Arts et de la Curiosité no. 26 (1907): 252.
1907Les Chefs-d'oeuvre de l'art flamand à l'exposition de la toison d'or. Bruges, 1907: 16-17, repro.
1907Girodie, André. "La Toison d'or et l'art néerlandais sous les ducs de Bourgogne." L'Art de les Artistes 5 (September, 1907): 289-290, repro.
1907Hymans, Henri. "L'Exposition de la toison d'or à Bruges." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 38 (1907): 203-204, repro. opp. 204.
1907Hymans, Henri. Les Van Eyck. Paris, 1907: 111-112, repro. 109.
1907Mandach, C. de "L'Exposition de la toison d'or et de l'art néerlandais sous les ducs de Bourgogne." Revue de l'Art Ancien et Moderne 22 (1907): 155.
1907Strange, Edward. "The Exhibition of the Golden Fleece at Bruges." The Connoisseur 19, no. 73 (1907): 32, repro.
1908Les Chefs-d'oeuvre d'art ancien à l'exposition de la toison d'or à Bruges en 1907. Brussels, 1908: 78, pl. 361.
1908Saintenoy, Paul. L'Église Saint-Jacques de Compostelle et le décor architectural de l'Annonciation de Jean van Eyck. Antwerp, 1908: 4-5, 8-10.
1908Weale, W. H. James. Hubert and John van Eyck. Their Life and Work. London, 1908: 119-122, no. 16, repro. betw. 118 and 119.
1909Wrangell, Nicolas. Les Chefs-d'oeuvre de la galerie de tableaux de l'Ermitage Impérial à St. Pétersbourg. Munich, 1909: XI, repro. 62.
1910"Extraits des procès-verbaux des séances. Séance de rentrée du 13 novembre 1907." Mémoires de l'Académie des sciences, arts et belle-lettres de Dijon 4e sér. 11 (1910): LXX.
1910Durand-Gréville, E. Hubert et Jean van Eyck. Brussels, 1910: 80-85, repro. opp. 80.
1912Kern, G. Joseph. "Perspective und Bildarchitektur bei Jan van Eyck." Repertorium für Kunstwissenschaft 35 (1912): 50-51.
1912Réau, Louis. "La galerie de tableaux de l'Ermitage et la collection Semenov." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 8 (1912): 471-472.
1912Weale, W. H. James, and Maurice Brockwell. The Van Eycks and Their Art. London, 1912: 98-102, pl. 19.
1913Durand-Gréville, E. Review of The Van Eycks and their Art by W. H. James Weale and Maurice Brockwell. In La Chronique des Arts et de la Curiosité no. 32 (1913): 254.
1915Friedländer, Max J. "Eyck, Jan van." In Thieme-Becker 1915, 11:129-133.
1919Huizinga, Johan. Herfsttij der Middeleeuwen. Haarlem, 1919: 474-476.
1921Brockwell, Maurice. "Exposition des Beaux-Arts de Burlington Club." La Chronique des Arts et de la Curiosité no. 2 (1921): 14.
1921Conway, Martin. The Van Eycks and Their Followers. London, 1921: 64-65.
1922Pfister, Kurt. Van Eyck. Munich, 1922: 62, pl. 14.
1924Schmarsow, August. Hubert und Jan van Eyck. Leipzig, 1924: 135-141, pl. 29.
1924Winkler, Friedrich. Die alniederländische Malerei. Berlin, 1924: 49.
1924Friedländer 1924, 1:104-105, pl. 44 (vol. 1, 1967: 63-64, pl. 57).
1925Burger, Willy. Die Malerei in den Niederlanden 1400-1550. Munich, 1925: 18-20, pl. 10.
1927Reinach, S. "Three Early Panels from the Ducal Residence at Dijon." The Burlington Magazine 50 (1927): 234-245.
1928Demonts, Louis. "Le Maître de l'Annonciation d'Aix, des van Eyck à Antonello de Messine." Revue de l'Art Ancien et Moderne 53 (1928): 265, 278.
1932Tolnai, Karl von. "Zur Herkunft des Stiles der van Eyck." Münchner Jahrbuch der bildenden Kunst 9 (1932): 322.
1934Friedländer, Max J. "A New Painting by van Eyck." The Burlington Magazine 65 (1934): 3.
1934Jong, Johannes de. Architektuur bij de Nederlandsche Schilders vóór de Hervorming. Amsterdam, 1934: 70-71, 134, 155-156, figs. 65, 128, 149.
1935"Mellon Holdings Are Announced by Knoedler & Co." Art News 33 (23 February, 1935): 4, repro. 9.
1935"Mellon to Give Gallery and 19,000,000 of Art to Nation." Art Digest 9 (1 March, 1935): 6, repro.
1935Panofsky, Erwin. "The Friedsam Annunciation and the Problem of the Ghent Altarpiece." The Art Bulletin 17 (1935): 449, 468, 471, 473, fig. 22.
1935Tietzte, Hans. Meisterwerke europäischer Malerei in Amerika. Vienna, 1935: 333, no. 122, repro. 123.
1936Robb, David. "The Iconography of the Annunciation in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries." The Art Bulletin 18 (1936): 506-508, fig. 31.
1937Beenken, Hermann. "The Annunciation of Petrus Christus in the Metropolitan Museum and the Problem of Hubert van Eyck." The Art Bulletin 19 (1937): 231.
1937Dupont, Jacques. "Les peintures de la Chartreuse de Champmol." Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de l'Art Français (1937): 155-157.
1937Cortissoz, Royal. An Introduction to the Mellon Collection. Boston, 1937: repro. opposite p. 31
1938Burroughs, Alan. Art Criticism from a Laboratory. Boston, 1938: 201-202.
1939Tolnay, Charles de. Le Maître de Flémalle et les frères van Eyck. Brussels, 1939: 25, 66, no. 5, repro. 71-73.
1941Held, Julius S. "Masters of Northern Europe, 1430-1660, in the Natinal Gallery." Art News 40 (June, 1941): 11, repro.
1941Tolnay, Charles de. "Flemish Paintings in the National Gallry of Art." Magazine of Art 34 (1941): 175-176, 178, figs. 1, 3-5.
1941Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 61-62.
1942Friedländer, Max J. On Art and Connoisseurship. London, 1942: 186-187.
1942Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 240, repro. 38.
1943Beenken, Hermann. Hubert und Jan van Eyck. 2d ed. Munich, 1943: 78-80, 88, pl. 106.
1944Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., Masterpieces of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1944: 84, color repro.
1945Meiss, Millard. "Light as Form and Symbol in Some Fifteenth-Century Paintings." The Art Bulletin 27 (1945): 178-179, fig. 4.
1946Favorite Paintings from the National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C.. New York, 1946: 43-45, color repro.
1948Beer, E. S. de. "Gothic: Origin and Diffusion of the Term; the Idea of Style in Architecture." Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 11 (1948): 159.
1948Musper, Theodor. Untersuchungen zu Rogier van der Weyden und Jan van Eyck. Stuttgart, 1948: 104-105, pl. 165.
1949Paintings and Sculpture from the Mellon Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1949 (reprinted 1953 and 1958): 52, repro.
1950Kauffmann, Hans. "Jan van Eyck's `Arnolfinihochzeit.'" Geistige Welt 4 (January, 1950): 48-49, repro.
1952Baldass, Ludwig. Jan van Eyck. London, 1952: 54-55, 277-278, no. 9, pls. 113-115.
1952Ladoué, Pierre. "La Scène de L'Annunciation vue par les peintres." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 39 (1952): 355.
1952Meiss, Millard. "`Nicolas Albergati' and the Chronology of Jan van Eyck's Portraits." The Burlington Magazine 94 (1952): 137.
1953Panofsky, ENP 1953, 137-139, 147-148, 193-194, fig. 238.
1954Fourez, Lucien. "L'Évêque Chevrot de Tournai et sa Cité de Dieu." Revue Belge d'Archéologie et d'Histoire de l'Art 23 (1954): 100-101, fig. 16.
1955Winkler, Friedrich. Review of Early Netherlandish Painting by Erwin Panofsky. In Kunstchronik 8 (1955): 22.
1956Herzog, Erich. "Zur Kirchenmadonna van Eycks." Berliner Museen 6 (1956): 5, 14.
1956Pächt, Otto. Review of Early Netherlandish Painting by Erwin Panofsky. In The Burlington Magazine 98 (1956): 274.
1956Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1956: 36, repro.
1957Quarré, Pierre. "Fragment d'un primitif de la Chartreuse de Champmol au Musée des Arts Decoratifs." La Revue des Arts 7 (1957): 63.
1957Shapley, Fern Rusk. Comparisons in Art: A Companion to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. London, 1957 (reprinted 1959): 12, fig 6, pl. 7, 121
1960Broadley, Hugh T. Flemish Painting in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1960 (Booklet Number Five in Ten Schools of Painting in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.): 2-3, 12, color repro.
1960[Pierre Quarré]. La Chartreuse de Champmol: Foyer d'art au temps des Ducs Valois. Exh. cat. Musée de Dijon, 1960: 15.
1960Wilenski, R. H. Flemish Painters 1430-1830. 2 vols. New York, 1960: 1:12.
1960The National Gallery of Art and Its Collections. Foreword by Perry B. Cott and notes by Otto Stelzer. National Gallery of Art, Washington (undated, 1960s): 19, color repro. 7.
1961Denis, Valentin. All the Paintings of Jan van Eyck. New York, 1961: 28, 48, pls. 81-85.
1961Faggin, Giuseppe. Van Eyck. Verona, 1961: 116, 126, 195, no. 14, figs. 73-76.
1961Kurz, Otto. "Eyck, Hubert, and Jan van." Encyclopedia of World Art. 16 vols. New York, Toronto, and London, 1961: 5:col. 327.
1961Meiss, Millard. "`Highlands' in the Lowlands. Jan van Eyck, the Master of Flémalle and the Franco-Italian Tradition." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 57 (1961): 310.
1961Schilling, Rosy. "Das Llangattock-Stundenbuch. Sein Verhältnis zu Van Eyck und dem Vollender des Turin Mailänder Stundenbuches." Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch 23 (1961): 225.
1961Seznec, Jean. "Michelet et l'Annonciation." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 58 (1961): 147, fig. 151.
1963Bauch, Kurt. "Bildnisse des Jan van Eyck." Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften. Jahresheft 1961/1962. Wiesbaden, 1963: 101. Repr. in Kurt Bauch, Studien zur Kunstgechichte. Berlin, 1967: 83.
1963Bruyn, Josua. "Twee Kardinaalsportretten in het werk van Jan van Eyck." Album Discipulorum J. G. van Gelder. Utrecht, 1963: 30.
1963McNamee, M. B. "Further Symbolism in the Portinari Altarpiece." The Art Bulletin 45 (1963): 143.
1963Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 96, repro.
1965Bol, L. J. Jan van Eyck. New York, 1965: 87, repro. 47.
1965Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 48
1966Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 1:74, color repro.
1967Thalheimer, Siegfried. Der Genter Altar. Munich, 1967: 71.
1968Cuttler 1968, 85-86, fig. 101.
1968Faggin, Giorgio T. L'opera completa dei van Eyck. Milan, 1968: 94-95, repro. no. 18, pls. 35-36.
1968Meiss, Millard. French Painting in the Time of Jean de Berry. The Bouciaut Master. London, 1968: 72-73.
1968European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 41, repro.
1969Blum, Shirley Neilsen. Early Netherlandish Triptychs. Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1969: 10.
1969Minott, Charles. "The Theme of the Mérode Altarpiece." The Art Bulletin 51 (1969): 267.
1969Pauwels, H. Review of Der Genter Altar by Siegfried Thalheimer. In The Burlington Magazine 111 (1969): 393.
1969Peman y Pemartin, Cesar. Juan van Eyck y España. Cadiz, 1969: 43-44, fig. 24.
1971Philip, Lotte Brand. The Ghent Altarpiece and the Art of Jan van Eyck. Princeton, 1971: 139, fig. 138.
1972Braunfels, Wolfgang. Monasteries of Western Europe. Princeton, 1972: 120, fig. 145.
1972Kahr, Madlyn. "Delilah." The Art Bulletin 54 (1972): 284.
1972Strauss, Konrad. "Keramikgefässe, insbesondere Fayencegefässe auf Tafelbildern der ... niederländischen Schule des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts." Keramik-Freunde der Schweiz. Mitteilungsblatt no. 84 (197l): 22, pl. 3, fig. 1.
1973Koller, Manfred. "Der Albrechtsmeister und Conrad Laib. Technologische Beiträge zur Tafelmalerei des `Realistischen Stiles' in Österreich." Österreichische Zeitschrift für Kunst und Denkmalpflege 27 (1973): 52.
1973Stangel, Andrew Laurie. "The Cartographic Symbolism in Jan van Eyck's Annunciation in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C." Comitatus 4 (1973): 41-48, repro. 44, 45.
1974Birkmeyer, Karl. Review of The Ghent Altarpiece and the Art of Jan van Eyck by Lotte Brand Philip. In The Art Bulletin 56 (1974): 286.
1974Meiss, Millard. French Painting in the Time of Jean de Berry. The Limbourgs and their Contemporaries. New York, 1974: 446.
1974Walker, John. Self-Portrait with Donors. Boston, 1974: 115.
1975Collier, James Mitchell. "Linear Perspective in Flemish Painting and the Art of Petrus Christus and Dirk Bouts." Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, 1975: 62-63, fig. 16.
1975Ward, John. "Hidden Symbolism in Jan van Eyck's Annunciations." The Art Bulletin 57 (1975): 196-208, repro.
1975European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 124, repro. 125.
1975Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1975: 120, repro. 121.
1976Sterling, Charles. "Jan van Eyck avant 1432." Revue de l'Art no. 33 (1976): 9, 11.
1977Williams, Carolyn. "Jan van Eyck's Annunciation. An Iconographical Study." M.A. thesis, University of Delaware, 1977.
1978Bernardini, Cecilia. Jan van Eyck. Rome, 1978: 12, pl. 20.
1978Panhans-Bühler, Ursula. Eklektizismus und Originalität im Werk des Petrus Christus. Vienna, 1978: 71, fig. 4.
1979Châtelet, Albert. Van Eyck. Bologna, 1979: 40, 42, pl. 7.
1979Watson, Ross. National Gallery of Art. London, 1979: 47, pl. 30, color repro.
1980Dhanens, Elisabeth. Hubert and Jan van Eyck. Antwerp, 1980: 355, 358, fig. 221.
1981Lyman, Thomas. "Architectural Portraiture and Jan van Eyck's Washington Annunciation." Gesta 20/1 (1981): 263-271, fig. 1.
1981O'Meara, Carra Ferguson. "Isabelle of Portugal as the Virgin in Jan van Eyck's Washington Annunciation." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 97 (1981): 99-103, figs. 1-2.
1982Purtle, Carol J. The Marian Paintings of Jan van Eyck. Princeton, 1982: 40-58, 60, 75, figs. 26, 28-29.
1983Giltay, J. Review of Hubert and Jan van Eyck by Elisabeth Dhanens. In Simiolus 13 (1983): 56-57.
1984Lane, Barbara G. The Altar and the Altarpiece. Sacramental Themes in Early Netherlandish Painting. New York, 1984: 45-47, fig. 28.
1984Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. (rev. ed.) New York, 1984: 120, no. 104, color repro.
1985European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 150, repro.
1986Hand, John Oliver and Martha Wolff. Early Netherlandish Painting. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1986: 76-86, color repro. 77.
1992National Gallery of Art, Washington. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 40, repro.
1994Hand, John Oliver. Jan van Eyck's 'Annunication'. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1994.
1995Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History. New York, 1995:18, fig. 5, repro. (Rev. ed. 1999:18, fig. 5, repro.)
1998From Van Eyck to Bruegel: Early Netherlandish Painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat. Edited by Maryan W. Ainsworth and Keith Christiansen. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1998: 81-42, repro. no. 44.

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