The Annunciation to Joachim

1514

Wolf Huber

Associated Names
Wolf Huber

Artist, German, c. 1485/1490 - 1553

The image shows a scene with a slightly elevated perspective, depicting a landscape with a sky above. The horizon is visible with textured clouds filling the upper part of the image. A winged figure is descending from above. The style is detailed and meticulous, resembling an etching or engraving. The color palette is monochromatic, using shades of brown and beige. In the foreground, there is a dog standing next to a kneeling figure interacting with the angel. Trees with detailed foliage are also present. In the background, a shepherd is with a flock near simplistic buildings.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 21.9 x 14.7 cm (8 5/8 x 5 13/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1950.20.6

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

William Mitchell [ d. 1908], Australia and London (Lugt 2638); Princes of Liechtenstein, Vienna (Lugt 4398); purchased 20 April 1948 through (Walter Felichenfeldt, Zurich) by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA;[1] gift to NGA in 1950.
[1] Rosenwald describes the acquisitions from Liechtenstein in Recollections of a Collector, 1976, p. 46-47.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1948

  • Seventy Master Drawings, Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1948-1949, no. 20.

1950

  • Rosenwald Collection: An Exhibition of Recent Acquisitions, NGA, 1950, no. 51, repro.

1953

  • Landscape Drawings & Water-colors: Bruegel to Cézanne, Pierpont Morgan Library, 1953, no. 2.

  • Masterpieces of Graphic Art from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1953-1954, no catalogue.

1954

  • Masterpieces from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1954, no catalogue.

1955

  • Master Drawings, Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, 1955.

1956

  • Masterpieces of Graphic Art. From the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, NGA, 1956.

1966

  • Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1966.

1968

  • Good and Bad Angels, University of Notre Dame Art Gallery, IN, 1968, no catalogue.

1969

  • Prints and drawings of the Danube School: an exhibition of South German and Austrian graphic art of 1500 to 1560, Yale University Art Gallery; City Art Museum of St. Louis; Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1969-1970, no.79, repro.

1978

  • Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978, pp. pp. 26-27, repro.

1979

  • Early German Drawings & Prints: Two Recent Acquisitions and Related Works, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1979, no. 9.

1982

  • Lessing J. Rosenwald: Tribute to a Collector, NGA, 1982, no. 47, repro.

Bibliography

1930

  • Halm 1930, 36.

1969

  • Yale UAG 1969, 79.

1982

  • Fine, Ruth E. Lessing J. Rosenwald: Tribute to a Collector. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1982, no. 47.

1984

  • Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 661, no. 1042, color repro.

2016

  • Brisman, Shira. "Nachrichten aus Nürnberg: The Annunciation as an Epistolary Address." Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 79, no. 2 (2016): 208, nt. 13.

2021

  • Wheelock, Arthur K., Jr. "In Pursuit of Masterpieces: The National Gallery of Art's Acquisitions from The Prince of Liecthenstein." Artibus et historiae 42, no. 83 (2021): 316, color fig. 5, 317.

Inscriptions

upper center in pen and brown ink: 1514

Markings

verso, lower left, stamped in black ink: William Mitchell (Lugt 2638)

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q64640535

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