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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1969.36
People
Domenico Ghirlandaio, Italian (Florence, Italy 1449 - 1494 Florence, Italy)
Title
The Virgin of the Annunciation
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Kneeling Virgin (fragment of An Annunciation) / The Virgin Annunciate
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1475
Culture
Italian, Tuscan, Florentine
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228172

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Fresco transferred to canvas
Technique
Fresco painting
Dimensions
147 x 103.5 cm (57 7/8 x 40 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Cavaliere Giuseppe Toscanelli, sold [through his sale, April 9-23, 1883, lot no. 68 as Benozzo Gozzoli]. Professor Luigi Grassi, Florence, sold; to Edward Waldo Forbes, 1905, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1969.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Edward W. Forbes
Accession Year
1969
Object Number
1969.36
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Chandler R. Post, Art: The Loan Exhibition of Italian Painting at the Fogg Museum, The Nation (March 18, 1915), Vol. 100, No. 2594, p. 314
  • George Harold Edgell, An Early Fresco by Ghirlandaio, Art in America (New York, October 1917), vol. 5, pp. 293-299, pp. 293-299, repr.
  • William N. Bates, Archaeological Discussions, American Journal of Archaeology, Archaeological Institute of America (April - June 1918), Vol. 22, No. 2, p. 232
  • Collection of Mediaeval and Renaissance Paintings, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1919), pp. 75-76, no. 11
  • Edward Waldo Forbes, Yankee Visionary, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1971), p. 30, repr. in b/w p. 31
  • Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990)

Exhibition History

  • Edward Waldo Forbes: Yankee Visionary, Fogg Art Museum, 01/16/1971 - 02/22/1971

Verification Level

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