The Annunciation

c. 1516

Lucas van Leyden

Artist, Netherlandish, 1489/1494 - 1533

Lucas van Leyden

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed within image): 8.7 x 10.9 cm (3 7/16 x 4 5/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1999.103.2

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 35

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Leonard Baskin (Lugt undescribed). (Paul Prouté S. A., Paris); purchased 1999 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1802

  • Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna: J.V. Degen, 1802-1821.

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberge

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: L; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: C-9112 / B 35 / B. 35; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: VVII

Wikidata ID

Q75422983

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