The Annunciation
c. 1450/1470
Artist
Artwork overview
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Medium
woodcut, hand-colored in red lake, green, yellow, tan, olive, and pink
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 27.1 x 19.3 cm (10 11/16 x 7 5/8 in.)
sheet: 31.5 x 22.7 cm (12 3/8 x 8 15/16 in.)
overall: 59.7 x 44.5 cm (23 1/2 x 17 1/2 in.) -
Accession
1943.3.452
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Catalogue Raisonné
Schreiber, no. 027, State a
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Barfusserkloster, Freiburg, Switzerland. Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA; gift 1943 to NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1941
The First Century of Printmaking 1400-1500, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1941, no. 4, repro.
1947
Six Centuries of Prints, Detroit Institute of Arts, 1947, no cat.
1949
Ten Centuries of Christian Art, Milwaukee Art Institute, WI, 1949, no catalogue.
Selection from the Rosenwald Collection, Art Gallery of Toronto, 1949, no cat.
1951
Fifteenth-century Graphic Art from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1951-1952, no cat.
1953
Masterpieces of Graphic Art from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1953-1954.
1954
Masterpieces from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1954.
1956
Prints, 1400-1800, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts; The Cleveland Museum of Art; The Art Institute of Chicago, 1956-1957, no. 1.
Selected Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, City Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, 1956.
1959
Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, University of Nebraska Art Galleries, Lincoln, 1959, no catalogue.
An Exhibition of Christmas Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1959, no cat.
1961
Gothic and Renaissance Prints, Colby College Art Museum, Waterville, ME, 1961.
Christmas Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1961-1962, no cat.
1963
Christmas Card Subjects from the Graphic Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1963-1964, no cat.
1965
Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 6, repro.
1968
L'Incisione Europea dal XV al XX Secolo, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Turin, Italy, 1968. no. 3, repro.
1971
Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia, Fredericksburg, VA, 1971, no. 5, repro.
Christmas Print Exhibition, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX, 1971-1972, no catalogue.
Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Saint John's College, Santa Fe, NM, 1971, no catalogue.
1973
Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Prints of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art Rosenwald Collection, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1973, no. 4.
1983
Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May 1983.
2005
Origins of European Printmaking: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Their Public, NGA and Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, 2005-2006, no. 22b, repro.
Bibliography
1926
Schreiber, Wilhelm Ludwig. Handbuch de Holz- und Metailschnitte des XV Jahrhunderts. 8 vols. Leipzig: Verlag Karl W. Hierseman, 1926-1930.
1965
Field, Richard S. Fifteenth Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. Exh. cat. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1965: no. 6.
2013
Brisman, Shira. "The Image That Wants to Be Read: An Invitation for Interpretation in a Drawing by Albrecht Dürer." Word & Image 29, no. 3 (July/September 2013): 289-290, fig. 11.
Inscriptions
center, in block, on banner: ave gracia plena dominus te; below image, in pen and brown ink: Natus ab eterno patre qui prodiit infans abnuit ille nichil nulla petita negat Candida fac igitur tu suffragare rogata daque pias mentes diua maria Vale (Born of the eternal father, he who came to the world as a small child rejects nothing, and he refuses nothing that is asked of him. So grant radiance to the petitioner's requests, support them, and give pious dispositions, divine Maria. Be well.)
[translation from Parshall, Peter, and Rainer Schoch. Origins of European Printmaking: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Their Public. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2005, p. 115, note 1.]
Watermarks
none
Wikidata ID
Q64952887