Virgin Annunciate

Fra Angelico(Italian, c. 1395/1400-1455)

Date

1450/1455

Medium

Gold leaf and tempera on wood panel

Dimensions

Framed: 19 1/2 x 17 3/8 x 2 in. ( 49.5 x 44.1 x 5.1 cm) 13 x 10 5/8 in. (33.0 x 27.0 cm)

Department

European Painting

Classification

Paintings

Credit

Bequest of Eleanor Clay Ford

Accession No.

77.1.2

Provenance

(?) Fiesoli, Convent of San Domenico; (?) Possibly collection Cardinal Desiderio Scaglia (1621); Paris, collection Baron Dominique-Vivant Denon; Paris, auction Baron Vivant Denon, 1 May 1826, lot 41; Great Britain, Fonthill Abbey, Collection William Beckford; By inheritance, daughter of Beckford; Glasgow, Hamilton Palace, collection Duke of Hamilton (entered collection through marriage to Beckford's daughter); Glasgow, Hamilton Palace, collection Duke of Hamilton; London, auction, 12th Duke of Hamilton (Christie's) 24 June 1882, lot 356; acquired by Winckworth [collector?, dealer?], 1882; London, collection John Edward Taylor; London, auction (Christie's) 5 July 1912, lot 11; Paris, Galerie Sedelmeyer (until after 1913); New York, collection Carl W. Hamilton; Detroit, Grosse Pointe Farms, collection Mr. and Mrs. Edsel Ford (1925); bequeathed by Eleanor Clay Ford to the Detroit Institute of Arts in 1977).

Keywords

metal, paint, panel, gold, gold leaf, religion, tempera, wood, half length