Samuel van Hoogstraten

The Annunciation of the Death of the Virgin



Samuel van Hoogstraten - The Annunciation of the Death of the Virgin



Samuel van Hoogstraten
The Annunciation of the Death of the Virgin
c. 1670
66 x 52.7 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed lower left: S.v.H.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Purchase, Rogers Fund and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1992


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
Werner Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler II, Landau/Pfalz, 1983, nr. 828

Collection catalogues
Walter Liedtke, Dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New Haven, 2007, nr. 91


Provenance

?Myken Willems Bidloo, widow of Marcelis Adriaensz Bacx, ?Dordrecht (estate inventory, 19 January 1671, as "Een Marijen-beelt van Hooghstraeten")
G.L. Hevesi, London, until 1952
sale, Christie's, London, 25 April 1952, nr. 138, to Appleby
Walter P. Chrysler Jr., New York, until 1960/65, sold to Moss
with Stanley Moss, New York, from 1960/65, sold to Woodner
Ian Woodner, New York, by 1988–died 1990
Woodner Family Collection, New York, 1990–92
sale, Christie's, New York, 16 January 1992, nr. 8 to Naumann
with Otto Naumann, New York, 1992, sold to MMA

Iconclass

73A52 The Annunciation: Mary, usually reading, is visited by the angel (sometimes a woman overhears the conversation)

External links

RKD 104029
Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 1992.133

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