Skip to main content

The Annunciation (from the Life of the Virgin series)

(German, about 1440/45–1503)
(German, 1465–1524)
Medium/TechniqueEngraving
DimensionsSheet: 26.6 x 18.2 cm (10 1/2 x 7 3/16 in.)
Credit LineHarriet Otis Cruft Fund
Accession number21.11756
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsInscribed in plate, on banderole: AVE GRACIA PLENA; on vase at center left: SNARN
ProvenanceBefore 1917, Eduard Aumüller; June 19 -, 1917, his sale, Paul Cassirer and Hugo Helbing, Berlin, lot 580, to Paul Davidson (b. 1839 - d. 1927?; Lugt 654), London, Vienna, and Berlin; November 22-26, 1920, his sale, C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, lot 1311, to P & D Colnaghi (dealers) for the MFA. (Accession Date: January 1, 1921)