id: 127572 accession number: 1950.251 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1950.251 updated: 2025-05-08 11:22:00.710000 The Annunciation, c. 1580. Paolo Veronese (Italian, 1528–1588), and Workshop. Oil on canvas; framed: 176 x 159.5 x 9.5 cm (69 5/16 x 62 13/16 x 3 3/4 in.); unframed: 150 x 133.4 cm (59 1/16 x 52 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Hanna Fund 1950.251 title: The Annunciation title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1580 creation date earliest: 1575 creation date latest: 1585 current location: 118 Italian Renaissance creditline: Gift of the Hanna Fund copyright: --- culture: Italy, 16th century technique: oil on canvas department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - Italian 16th & 17th Century type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Paolo Veronese (Italian, 1528–1588) - artist * Workshop - artist --- measurements: Framed: 176 x 159.5 x 9.5 cm (69 5/16 x 62 13/16 x 3 3/4 in.); Unframed: 150 x 133.4 cm (59 1/16 x 52 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Venetian Tradition opening date: 1956-11-08T05:00:00 The Venetian Tradition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 8, 1956-January 1, 1957). title: In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. opening date: 1958-03-04T05:00:00 In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-April 7, 1958). title: Art and Humanism in the Renaissance opening date: 1962-01-23T05:00:00 Art and Humanism in the Renaissance. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 23-February 25, 1962). title: Juxtapositions opening date: 1965-09-11T04:00:00 Juxtapositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 11-October 10, 1965). title: Paolo Veronese: Versatile Master of Renaissance Venice opening date: 2012-12-06T00:00:00 Paolo Veronese: Versatile Master of Renaissance Venice. John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL (organizer) (December 6, 2012-April 14, 2013). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Survey of Italian Art. Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA (November 8-December 8, 1957).', 'opening_date': '1957-11-08T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Titian, Tintoretto, Paolo Veronese with a Group of Sixteenth-Century Venetian Drawings. Art Gallery of Ontario,Toronto, Ontario ( February 12-March 13, 1960).', 'opening_date': '1960-02-12T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Masterpieces of the 16th Century Art. Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY (October 15-November 15, 1964).', 'opening_date': '1964-10-15T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'The Adriatic Sea: A Civilization Between Borders and Frontiers. Fondo Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona, Italy (March-July 2001).', 'opening_date': '2001-03-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'The Secular Veronese. (Musee du Luxembourg, Paris, France (September 22, 2004-January 30, 2005); Musee Correr, Venice, Italy (February 11-May 29, 2005).', 'opening_date': '2005-02-11T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice. Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA (March 15-August 6, 2009; Musee du Louvre, Paris, France (September 14, 2009-January 5, 2010).', 'opening_date': '2009-03-15T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio date: 1950- footnotes: citations: (Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: Until 1950 footnotes: *
Saemy Rosenberg visited Koppel in Toronto during the war and it was determined that Rosenberg & Stiebel would sell Koppel's collection
citations: Albert Koppel, Switzerland and Toronto, Ontario, consigned to Rosenberg & Stiebel date: Probably 1933 - c. 1950 footnotes: *
After leaving Germany, Alfred Koppel went to Switzerland before settling in Toronto.
citations: Leopold Koppel [1854-1933], Berlin, by descent to his son, Albert Koppel date: Probably 1913-1933 footnotes: *
Leopold Koppel was a prominent banker and entrepreneur with an extensive collection.  Art historian Wilhelm von Bode [d. 1929], who advised Koppel on his collection, likely expected him to leave it to the Kasier-Friedrich-Museum (now the Bode Museum), which Bode had established in 1904.   The donation never materialized, however, as the Koppel famly had to leave Germany when Hitler came to power.
citations: Balboni collection, Venice, probably sold to Leopold Koppel date: Until 1913 footnotes: *
Max J. Friedlaender's handwritten inventory of Leopold Koppel's collection, apparently the earliest documentation for the Veronese, states that Koppel purchased the painting in 1913 from Balboni in Venice.  Balboni may refer to Carlo Balboni, a dealer in Venice who appears in the provenances of a series of works by Pietro Longhi currently in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 
citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art. European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. page number: url: Saemy Rosenberg, letter to Henry S. Francis, Nov. 3, 1966, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: Cleveland Museum of Art. European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. page number: url: Saemy Rosenberg, letter to William Milliken, June 30, 1950, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: Saemy Rosenberg, letter to Henry S. Francis, Nov. 3, 1966, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: page number: url: Cleveland Museum of Art. European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. page number: url: Hadeln, Detlev, Hermann Voss, and Morton H. Bernath. Archiv Für Kunstgeschichte. Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, 1913. page number: url: Saemy Rosenberg, letter to Henry S. Francis, Nov. 3, 1966, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: Brilliant, Virginia, et al. Paolo Veronese: A Master and His Workshop in Renaissance Venice. London, England: Scala, 2012. page number: url: Cleveland Museum of Art. European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 198 page number: url: Saemy Rosenberg, letter to Henry S. Francis, Nov. 3, 1966, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: Archiv Für Kunstgeschichte II, no. 3 (1914-1915): no. 50. page number: Mentioned: No. 50; reproduced: Taf. 50 url: Milliken, William M. "1916 Cleveland 1951." ARTnews XLIX, no. 2 (1951): 30-37. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 34 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisition Press Release,” January 11, 1951, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr0011 "Recent Acquisitions." 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Italian Pictures of the Renaissance; A List of the Principal Artists and Their Works with an Index of Places. Venetian School. New York: Phaidon Publishers; distributed by Garden City Books, 1957. page number: Mentioned: Vol. I, P. 130; Reproduced: Vol. II, pl. 1077 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 417 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n77 Pallucchini, Rodolfo. "Tiziano, Tintoretto e Veronese a Toronto." Arte Veneta: Rivista di Storia dell'Arte XII-XIV (1959-1960): 300. page number: Mentioned: P. 300 url: Art Gallery of Toronto. Titian, Tintoretto, Paolo Veronese, with a Group of Sixteenth-Century Venetian Drawings: a loan exhibition 12 February-13 March 1960.Toronto, Ontario, 1960. page number: Reproduced: no. 15 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 98 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n122 Marini, Remigio. L'opera completa del Veronese. Milano, Italy: Rizzoli Editore, 1968. page number: Mentioned: p. 130; Reproduced: p. 131 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 98 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n122 Heineman, Rudolf J. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection [Established in Memory of Dr. H.C. August Thyssen. Castagnola: Villa Favorita, 1969. page number: Mentioned: P. 346 url: Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972. page number: Mentioned: p. 39, 305, 374 url: Pignatti, Terisio, and Veronese. Veronese. Venezia, Italy: Alfieri, 1976. page number: Mentioned: p. 96, 162, 193, vol. I; Reproduced: figs. 679-82, vol. II. url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 114 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n134 Hadeln, Detlev, and Gunter Schweikhart. Paolo Veronese. Florenz, Italy: Kunsthistorisches Institut Florenz, 1978. page number: Mentioned: p. 92, 116; Reproduced: fig. 97 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. page number: Mentioned: p. 450; Reproduced: p. 451 url: Gemin, Massimo. Nuovi studi su Paolo Veronese. Venezia, Italy: Arsenale editrice, 1990. page number: Reproduced: p. 209, fig. 165 url: "1992 Annual Report." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 80, no. 6 (1993): 215-95. page number: Mentioned: p. 238 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161418 Pignatti, Terisio, Veronese, and Filippo Pedrocco. Veronese. Milano, Italy: Electa, 1995. page number: Mentioned: p. 452-453; Reproduced: np. 349 url: Nitti, Patrizia. Veronese: Gods, Heroes and Allegories. Milan, Italy: Skira, 2004. page number: Mentioned: p. 124; Reproduced: p. 125 url: Ilchman, Frederick, and Linda Borean. Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice. Boston, MA: MFA Publications, 2009. page number: Reproduced: p. 214, cat. 41 url: Brilliant, Virginia, et al. Paolo Veronese: A Master and His Workshop in Renaissance Venice. London,United Kingdom: Scala, 2012. page number: Reproduced: p. 145, fig. 24 url: Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art: Picture Book No. 4 . [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1952. page number: Reproduced: p. 55 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAPaintings1952 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1950.251/1950.251_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1950.251/1950.251_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1950.251/1950.251_full.tif