Literature

Everett Fahy (ed.), The Wrightsman pictures, New York; New Haven, 2005, nr. 14

Provenance

?church of San Daniele, Venice, by 1674–1809
?Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, 1809–14
?church in Gropello, from 1814
with Heim, Paris, until 1958, sold to Wrightsman
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, New York, 1958–73

Iconclass

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

External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 1973.311.2

Other works by Luca Giordano

A Philosopher

The Death of Cleopatra

The Ecstasy of Saint Mary Magdalen
c. 1660-65

The Judgement of Solomon

Saint Michael