The Annunciation

between 1650 and 1655

Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn Dutch, 1606-1669

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Title The Annunciation

Artwork Date between 1650 and 1655

Artist Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn

Life Dates 1606-1669

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Dutch

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Oil on oak panel

Dimensions Unframed: 20 3/8 × 17 1/8 inches (51.8 × 43.5 cm) Framed: 30 × 26 5/8 × 2 1/2 inches (76.2 × 67.6 × 6.4 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 09.13

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Provenance

possibly Reimer Collection [according to Ch. Sedelmeyer]. possibly Richard von Kaufmann [1849-1908] (Berlin, Germany) [according to Ch. Sedelmeyer]. by 1897, (Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris, France)

1897-1906, purchased by James E. Scripps [1835-1906] (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1906-1909, by descent to his wife, Harriet Scripps [1838-1933] (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

"Mrs. Harriet Scripps Presents Fifteen Old Masters." Bulletin of the Detroit Museum of Art 3, no. 4 (October 1909): 46–50, p. 50. [as by attributed to Gerard Dow]

Handbook of Paintings by the Old Masters Belonging to the Detroit Museum of Art. Detroit, 1910, p. 54, no. 89. [as by attributed to Gerard Dow]

Burroughs, Clyde. Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture and Contemporary Arts and Crafts. Detroit, 1920, pp. 47–48, no. 37. [as by Gerard Dou, 1613–1691]

Richardson, Edgar P., ed. The Detroit Institute of Arts, Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 63, no. 569. [as by Samuel van Hoogstraten]

Moltke, J[oachim] W[olfgang] von. Govaert Flinck, 1615–1660. Amsterdam, 1965, p. 230, no. 29. [listed under wrongly attributed paintings, as perhaps by Salomon de Bray]

Paintings in the DIA: A Check List of the Paintings Acquired Before June, 1965. Detroit, 1965, p. 53. [as by Samuel van Hoogstraten]

Sumowski, Werner. Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, vol. 6. Landau, 1983, p. 3751, no. 2502. [as by anonymous pupil working in the 1640s]

Keyes, George S., et al. Masters of Dutch Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2004, pp. 190–191, no. 78 (ill.).

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school of Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, The Annunciation, between 1650 and 1655, oil on oak panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.13.