The Virgin Annunciate [middle right panel]
c. 1470/1480
Painter, Ferrarese, c. 1433 - 1495
West Building Main Floor, Gallery 13
Artwork overview
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Medium
tempera and distemper on panel
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall (middle right panel): 31 x 12.4 cm (12 3/16 x 4 7/8 in.)
framed: 43.5 x 16.8 x 4.4 cm (17 1/8 x 6 5/8 x 1 3/4 in.) -
Accession
1952.2.6.c
Associated Artworks
The Archangel Gabriel [middle left panel]
Cosmè Tura
1470
Saint Louis of Toulouse
Cosmè Tura
1470
Saint Francis [far left panel]
Cosmè Tura
1470
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Sir Francis Cook, 1st bt. [1817-1901], Doughty House, Richmond, Surrey, by 1888;[1] by inheritance to his son, Sir Frederick Lucas Cook, 2nd bt. [1844-1920], Doughty House; by inheritance to his son, Sir Herbert Frederick Cook, 3rd bt. [1868-1939], Doughty House; by inheritance to his son, Sir Francis Ferdinand Maurice Cook, 4th bt. [1907-1978], Doughty House, and Cothay Manor, Somerset;[2] (Francis A. Drey, London); sold February 1947 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[3] gift 1952 to NGA.
[1] Fritz Harck, "Verzeichnis der Werke des Cosma Tura," Jb Berlin 9 (1888): 37.
[2] The bill of sale to the Kress Foundation (see note 3) states that the painting was from "the collection of the late Sir Herbert Cook of Richmond (Surrey) England." The 4th Bt. inherited the collection and managed its dispersal after World War II with the trustees of the Cook estate.
[3] Drey sold five Cook paintings to the Kress Foundation, including Tura's "Annunciation with Two Saints" (bill of sale dated 18 February 1947; copy in NGA curatorial files).
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1894
Exhibition of Pictures, Drawings & Photographs of Works of the School of Ferrara-Bologna, 1440-1540, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1894, no. 5.
2005
Masterpieces in Miniature: Italian Manuscript Illumination from the J. Paul Getty Museum, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2005-2006, not in brochure.
Bibliography
1888
Harck, Fritz. “Verzeichnis der Werke des Cosma Tura.” Jahrbuch der Königlichen Preussischen Kunstsammlung 9 (1888): 37.
Venturi, Adolfo. “L’arte Ferrarese nel periodo d’Ercole I d’Este.” Atti e memorie della R. deputazione di storia patria per le provincie di Romagna 6 (1888): 374.
1892
Gruyer, Gustave. “Cosimo Tura.” L’art (October - November 1892): 26.
1894
Harck, Fritz. “Austellingen und Versteigerungen: Burlington Fine Arts Club. London.” Repertorium für Kunstwissenschaft 17 (1894): 313.
1897
Gruyer, Gustave. L'Art ferrarais a l'époque des princes d'Este. 2 vols. Paris, 1897: 2:80.
1901
Venturi, Adolfo. Storia dell’arte italiana. 11 vols. Milan, 1901-1940: 7, part 3(1914):538, fig. 406.
1903
Cook, Francis. Abridged Catalogue of the Pictures at Doughty House, Richmond. London, 1903: 11, no. 5.
1907
Berenson, Bernard. North Italian Painters of the Renaissance. New York and London, 1907: 298.
1908
Venturi, Adolfo. “L’opere de’ pittori ferraresi del ‘400 secondo il catalogo di Bernardo Berenson.” L’Arte 11 (1908): 420, fig. 1.
1911
Gardner, Edmund G. The Painters of the School of Ferrara. London, 1911: 208.
1912
Crowe, Joseph Archer, and Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle. A History of Painting in North Italy. Edited by Tancred Borenius. 3 vols. London, 1912: 2:231 n.
1913
Borenius, Tancred. A Catalogue of the Paintings at Doughty House, Richmond, and Elsewhere in the Collection of Sir Frederick Cook Bt. Italian Schools. Vol. I, Pt. 2. Edited by Herbert Cook. London, 1913: 139, no. 117, pl. 16.
1930
Gronau, Georg. Exhibition of Italian Art. Exh. cat. Royal Academy of Arts, London 1930: 137-138.
1931
Härtzsch, Otto. “Katalog der echten und falschlich zugeschriebenen Werke des Cosimo Tura.” Ph.D. diss., Hamburg University, 1931: 23-24.
1932
Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Oxford, 1932: 581.
Brockwell, Maurice W. Abridged Catalogue of the Pictures at Doughty House, Richmond, Surrey, in the Collection of Sir Herbert Cook. London, 1932: 20, no. 117.
1934
Longhi, Roberto. Officina Ferrarese. Rome, 1934: 26.
1936
Berenson, Bernard. Pitture italiane del rinascimento. Milan, 1936: 500.
1941
Ortolani, Sergio. Cosmé Tura, Francesco del Cossa, Ercole de'Roberti. Milan, 1941: 70-71, figs. 40, 41.
1950
Nicolson, Benedict. The Painters of Ferrara. London, 1950: 11, 18.
1951
Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection Acquired by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation 1945-1951. Introduction by John Walker, text by William E. Suida. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1951: 74, no. 26, repro.
1953
Neppi, Alberto. Cosmè Tura: saggio critico. Milan, 1953: 87, 136.
1957
Salmi, Mario. Cosmè Tura. Milan, 1957: 43, pls. 35a-c.
1958
Ruhmer, Eberhard. Tura: Paintings and Drawings. London and New York, 1958: 41, 45, 83, 178, figs. 64-67.
1959
Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 123, repro., as The Annunciation with Saint Francis and Saint Maurelius.
1960
Gilbert, Creighton. "Cosimo di Domenico di Bonaventura." In Dizionario biografico degli italiani. Edited by Alberto Maria Ghisalberti. 82+ vols. Rome, 1960+: 30(1984):27.
1963
Bianconi, Pietro. Tutta la pittura di Cosmè Tura. Milan, 1963: 29-30, 48-51, pls. 74-77.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 132, as The Annunciation with Saint Francis and Saint Maurelius.
1966
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XIII-XV Century. London, 1966: 82, fig. 226-229.
1968
119, repro., as The Annunciation with Saint Francis and Saint Maurelius.
Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Central Italian and North Italian Schools. 3 vols. London, 1968: 1:433.
1972
Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA, 1972: 206, 647.
1974
Molajoli, Rosemarie. L'Opera completa di Cosmè Tura e i grandi pittori ferraresi del suo tempo: Francesco Cossa e Ercole de'Roberti. Milan, 1974: 88, figs. 29-32, pls. 28, 29.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 352, repro., as The Annunciation with Saint Francis and Saint Maurelius.
1978
Boskovits, Miklós. “Ferrarese Painting around 1450: Some New Arguments.” The Burlington Magazine 120, no. 903 (June 1978): 378.
1979
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:510-511; 2:pl. 357.
1982
Sgarbi, Vittorio. “Ai margini dell’officina.” In Giuseppe Papagno and Amedeo Quondam, eds. La corte e lo spazio: Ferrara Estense. 3 vols. Rome, 1982: 2:595.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 403, repro., as The Annunciation with Saint Francis and Saint Maurelius.
1996
Lippincott, Kristen. "Cosimo Tura." In Jane Turner, ed. The Dictionary of Art. 34 vols. New York and London, 1996: 31:431.
1997
Campbell, Stephen J. Cosme Tura of Ferrara: Style, Politics and the Renaissance City, 1450-1495. New Haven, 1997: 65-69, fig. 48.
1999
Molteni, Monica. Cosmè Tura. Milan, 1999: 170, 176, 181, 232, repro.
Stemp, Richard. “Two Sculptures Designed by Cosmè Tura.” The Burlington Magazine 141, no. 1153 (April 1999): 209-210, fig. 5.
2000
Manca, Joseph. Cosmè Tura: The Life and Art of a Painter in Estense Ferrara. Oxford, 2000: 10, 45, 72-73, 162-164, pl. XIV, figs. 42a-d.
2002
Dunkerton, Jill. “Cosmè Tura’s Painting Technique.” In Stephen J. Campbell et al. Cosmè Tura: Painting and Design in Renaissance Ferrara. Ed. Alan Chong. Exh. cat. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, 2002: 142, 145, fig. 63, 157.
Toffanello, Marcello. “Cosmè Tura: Drawings and its Pictorial Components.” In Stephen J. Campbell et al. Cosmè Tura: Painting and Design in Renaissance Ferrara. Ed. Alan Chong. Exh. cat. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, 2002: 157.
2003
Boskovits, Miklós, and David Alan Brown, et al. Italian Paintings of the Fifteenth Century. The Systematic Catalogue of the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 2003: 660-665, color repro.
2007
Natale, Mauro, ed. Cosmè Tura e Francesco del Cossa. L’arte a Ferrara nell’età di Borso d’Este. Exh. cat. Palazzo dei Diamanti and Palazzo Schifanoia, Ferrara, 2007: 350.
Wikidata ID
Q20173929