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The Annunciation

(Italian (Venetian), 1696–1770)
mid 1730s
Medium/TechniquePen and brown ink and brush with brown wash over black chalk on off-white laid paper
DimensionsSheet: 43.7 x 29.8 cm (17 3/16 x 11 3/4 in.)
Credit LineBequest of Mrs. Edward Jackson Holmes, Edward Jackson Holmes Collection
Accession number64.2096
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDrawings
ProvenancePrince Alexis Orloff; Galerie Petit sale, 29 April, 1920, lot 73, Paris; Edward Jackson (1873-1950) and Mary Stacy Beaman (d. 1964) Holmes, Boston; acquired by bequest December 1964
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