The Angel of the Annunciation [recto]

1500/1504

Fra Bartolommeo

Artist, Florentine, 1472 - 1517

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink over black chalk on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 11.8 x 15.2 cm (4 5/8 x 6 in.)

  • Accession

    1972.23.1.a

Associated Artworks

A View of Prato with Santa Maria delle Carceri and the Imperial Castle [verso]

Fra Bartolommeo

1500

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Princes of Liechtenstein (Lugt 4398); Private collection; (sale, Sotheby's, London, 1 December 1966, no. 12); purchased by May; (P. & D. Colnaghi, London); NGA purchase in 1972.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1972

  • Drawings by Old Masters, London, P. & D. Colnaghi, 1972, no. 10.

1974

  • NGA Recent Acquisitions 1974, no. 12.

Bibliography

1986

  • Fischer, Chris. Disegni di Fra Bartolommeo e della sua Scuola. Florence, 1986: 53-54, under no. 17 (verso).

1989

  • Fischer, Chris. "Fra Bartolommeo's Landscape Drawings," Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz 33 (1989): 306-307, 336-337, notes 25-30, fig. 8 (verso).

Wikidata ID

Q64562127

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