About the Artwork
Leaf from Book of Hours: Annunciation to the Shepherds
ca. 1515
Master of Morgan 85
active ca. 1510 - 1520
French
Unknown
Ink, tempera, and gold on parchment
Sheet (irreg.): 6 7/8 × 4 1/2 inches (17.5 × 11.4 cm)
Manuscripts
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of the Durlacher Brothers
28.156.A
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, on speech scroll held by angel, top center: GLORIA IN EXCELSIS DEO Inscribed, bottom center: Deus [illegible]
Provenance
1928-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bulletin of the DIA 10, 7 (1929): p. 98.
DeRicci, S. and Wilson, W.J. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. 1937, vol. 2, p. 1134.
Watercolor Panorama. Exh. checklist, Flint Institute of Arts. Flint, Michigan, 1962, no. 114.
Plummer, J. The Last Flowering, French Painting in Manuscripts 1420-1530. New York, 1982, p. 92 (mentioned in no. 118).
Renaissance Works of Art from the Permanent Collection. Exh. checklist, Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, Michigan, 1982.
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Master of Morgan 85, Leaf from Book of Hours: Annunciation to the Shepherds, ca. 1515, ink, tempera, and gold on parchment. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the Durlacher Brothers, 28.156.A.
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