Virgin of the Annunciation
Goro di Gregorio
(Italian, active 1300–1334)
about 1330
Object PlaceSiena, Italy
Medium/TechniqueStone; marble
Dimensions64.1 x 13.97 x 22.86 cm (25 1/4 x 5 1/2 x 9 in.)
Credit LineGift of Eugene L. Garbáty
Accession number46.843
On View
Not on viewClassificationsSculpture
Collections
Provenance1910, Ludwig von Buerkel (b. 1877 - d. 1946), Florence; October 29, 1910, Buerkel sale, Helbing, Munich, lot 4 [see note 1]. Adolf von Beckerath (b. 1834 - d. 1915), Berlin; May 23-26, 1916, Beckerath estate sale, Lepke, Berlin, lot 16, unsold; November 20-21, 1916, Beckerath estate sale, Lepke, Berlin, lot 156 [see note 2]. February 24-25, 1920, anonymous sale, Lepke, Berlin, lot 462. By 1938, Eugene L. Garbáty (b. 1880 - d. 1966), Schloss Alt-Döbern, Niederlausitz (Germany), New York, and East Norwalk, CT [see note 3]; 1946, gift of Eugene L. Garbáty to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 12, 1946)
NOTES:
[1] Attributed in the catalogue to the Master of the Madonna della Spina at Pisa. [2] Attributed in the Beckerath catalogues to Giovanni Pisano. [3] Eugene Garbáty emigrated from Berlin to New York between 1938 and 1939, bringing much of his art collection with him.
NOTES:
[1] Attributed in the catalogue to the Master of the Madonna della Spina at Pisa. [2] Attributed in the Beckerath catalogues to Giovanni Pisano. [3] Eugene Garbáty emigrated from Berlin to New York between 1938 and 1939, bringing much of his art collection with him.
late 14th century
