Hans Memling
The Annunciation
ca. 1465-70186.1 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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Other works by Hans Memling
Last Judgment Triptych
St. John the Baptist
Donne Triptych
St. John the Baptist
Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)
c. 1470
c. 1470