Hans Memling

The Annunciation



Hans Memling - The Annunciation



Hans Memling
The Annunciation
ca. 1465-70
186.1 x 114.9 cm
Oil on wood
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


Provenance

?Chapelle Dorée, Cathédrale Saint-Lazare d'Autun (after 1465; probably commissioned by Ferry de Clugny)
Bertram Ashburnham, 4th Earl of Ashburnham, Ashburnham Place, Battle, Sussex (probably purchased by him; until d. 1878)
his son, Bertram Ashburnham, 5th Earl of Ashburnham, Ashburnham Place (1878–1903; sold to Colnaghi)
with Colnaghi, London, from 1903
Rodolphe Kann, Paris (until d. 1905; his estate, 1905–7; cat., 1907, vol. 2, nr. 108; sold to Duveen)
with Duveen, Paris and New York, 1907; sold for £28,000 to Morgan
J. Pierpont Morgan, New York (1907–d. 1913; his estate, 1913–17)
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External links

RKD 57405
Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 17.190.7

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