id: 131820 accession number: 1954.393 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1954.393 updated: 2019-08-12 08:00:15.540000 The Annunciation, 1380s. Netherlands, or possibly France, 14th century. Tempera and oil with gold on wood; framed: 40.3 x 31.4 x 4.8 cm (15 7/8 x 12 3/8 x 1 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1954.393 title: The Annunciation title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1380s creation date earliest: 1380 creation date latest: 1389 current location: 109 Gothic Painting and Sculpture creditline: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund copyright: --- culture: Netherlands, or possibly France, 14th century technique: tempera and oil with gold on wood department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Medieval Art type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Framed: 40.3 x 31.4 x 4.8 cm (15 7/8 x 12 3/8 x 1 7/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Gothic Art 1360-1440 opening date: 1963-08-06T04:00:00 Gothic Art 1360-1440. The Cleveland Museum of Art (August 6-September 15, 1963). title: Juxtapositions opening date: 1965-09-11T04:00:00 Juxtapositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art (September 11-October 10, 1965). title: Treasures of Medieval France opening date: 1966-11-16T05:00:00 Treasures of Medieval France. The Cleveland Museum of Art (November 16, 1966-January 29, 1967). title: When Angels Bent Near the Earth to Touch Their Harps of Gold: The Christmas Story opening date: 1981-12-01T05:00:00 When Angels Bent Near the Earth to Touch Their Harps of Gold: The Christmas Story. The Cleveland Museum of Art (December 1, 1981-January 17, 1982). title: Dukes and Angels: Art from the Court of Burgundy (1364-1419) opening date: 2004-05-27T00:00:00 Dukes and Angels: Art from the Court of Burgundy (1364-1419). Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon (May 27-September 15, 2004); The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 24, 2004-January 9, 2005). title: Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2007-05-10T00:00:00 Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. National Museum of Bavaria, Munich, Germany (May 10-September 16, 2007); J. Paul Getty Museum (October 30, 2007-January 20, 2008); Frist Center for the Visual Arts (February 13-June 7, 2009). title: Emperor Charles IV (1316-1378) opening date: 2016-05-14T00:00:00 Emperor Charles IV (1316-1378). National Gallery Prague (organizer) (May 14-September 25, 2016); Germanisches Nationalmuseum (October 20, 2016-March 5, 2017). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA (1927)

Religious Art, Jacques Seligman & Co. Gallery, New York, NY (March-April 1927)

French Primitives and Objects of Art, Kleinberger Galleries, New York, NY (Oct. 15 - Nov. 12, 1927)

French Gothic Art of the 13th to 15th Century, Detroit Institute of Arts, (Nov. 16 to Dec. 5, 1928)

French Art 1200-1900, Royal Academy, London (January-March 1932)

Collection of Arthur Sachs, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA (July 22-October 18, 1946)

La Vierge dans l'art Français, Paris, Petit Palais (1950)

French Painting 1100-1900, Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute (Oct. 18th-Dec. 2, 1951) --- PROVENANCE Duke of Anhalt, Dessau (1863, 1925) date: footnotes: citations: (C. A. de Burlet, Berlin) date: footnotes: citations: (R. Langton Douglas) date: ?-1926 footnotes: citations: Arthur Sachs, New York sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1926-1954 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1954- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: In this depiction of Gabriel, the angel's wings resemble the feathers of a peacock. digital description: wall description: This small but opulent panel painting was once joined to another panel with hinges to form a diptych. Given its small size, its original function was for private devotional use. It could be folded like a book when not in use and was highly portable. The missing panel has not been positively identified but probably represented another biblical scene like the Crucifixion. The painting’s refined and ornate style reflects the courtly aesthetic that appealed to royal and aristocratic patrons in the decades around 1400. On the panel’s richly tooled reverse (not visible) are the arms of the house of Hainault quartered with those of Bavaria. While this coat of arms is certainly that of the work’s patron, probably a member of the united dynasties of Hainault and Bavaria, their identity remains elusive. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Volbach, Wolfgang Fritz. Die Sammlung Silten. Berlin: Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, 1923. page number: Cat. No. 204, p. 74 url: Sperling, Emil M. Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of French Primitives and Objects of Art: In Aid of the French Hospital in New York. New York: Kleinberger Galleries, 1927. page number: Cat. No. 4. url: Detroit Institute of Arts. The Seventh Loan Exhibition; French Gothic Art of the 13th to 15th Century. Nov. 16 to Dec. 5, 1928. [Detroit]: Institute of Arts, 1928. page number: cat. no. 1 url: Jacques Seligmann & Co. Loan Exhibition of Religious Art: For the Benefit of the Basilique of the Sacre Coeur of Paris at the Galleries of Jacques Seligmann ... New York, March-April 1927. New York: The Gallery, 1928. page number: Cat. No. 1. url: Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain). Commemorative Catalogue of the Exhibition of French Art, 1200-1900. London: Oxford University Press, H. Milford, 1933. page number: Mentioned: p. 2, no. 6; reproduced: pl. 4, no. 6 url: Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain). Commemorative Catalogue of the Exhibition of French Art, 1200-1900. London: Oxford University Press, H. Milford, 1933. page number: No. 1, Cat. No. 6 url: Robb, David M. "The Iconography of the Annunciation in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries". Art Bulletin / Ed. John Shapley [U.a.]. (1936) 480-526. page number: url: Musée du Petit Palais (Paris, France). La Vierge dans l'art français. Paris: Presses artistiques, 1950. page number: Cat. No. 6 url: Carnegie Institute. French Painting, 1100-1900. 1951. page number: Cat. No. 26. 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. 395 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n73 "Gothic Art 1360-1440." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 50, no. 7 (1963): 174-215. page number: Cat. No. 19, p. 157. url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25151960 "Front Matter." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 50, no. 7 (1963). page number: Front Cover url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25151958 "Gothic Art 1360-1440." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 50, no. 7 (1963): 174-215. page number: p. 203 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25151960 Frinta, Mojmír Svatopluk. 1965. "An Investigation of the Punched Decoration of Mediaeval Italian and Non-Italian Panel Paintings". Art Bulletin / Ed. John Shapley [U.a.]. 261-265. page number: p. 264 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. 63 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n87 Laclotte, Michel. Primitifs français. [Paris]: Hachette, 1966. page number: p. 14-15 url: Wixom, William D. Treasures from Medieval France. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967. page number: pp. 242-243 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. 63 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n87 Cleveland Museum of Art, Louise d' Argencourt, and Roger Diederen. Catalogue of Paintings. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974. page number: pp. 21-24 url: Sterling, Charles. "Fighting Animals in the Adoration of the Magi." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 61, no. 10 (1974): 350-59. page number: Footnote No. 4 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152559 Sterling, Charles, Albert Châtelet, and Nicole Reynaud. Études D'art Français Offerts À Charles Sterling. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1975. page number: pp. 47-63 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. 71 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n91 Sutton, Denys, "Dramatic Days" Apollo: A Journal of the Arts (June 1979) page number: p. 454 url: Moench, Esther. "Stefano da Verona: La Quete d'Une Double Paternite" Zeitschrift Fur Kunstgeschichte. 2 (1986) page number: pp. 220-228 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. Interpretations: Sixty-Five Works from the Cleveland Museum of Art. 1991. page number: p. 8 url: Castelnuovo, Enrico. Vetrate medievali: officine, techniche, maestri. Torino: G. Einaudi, 1994. page number: pp. 170-171 url: Toman, Rolf, and Achim Bednorz. The art of Gothic: architecture, sculpture, painting. Köln: Könemann, 1999. page number: p. 396 url: Fliegel, Stephen N., Sophie Jugie, and Virginie Barthélémy. Art from the Court of Burgundy: The Patronage of Philip the Bold and John the Fearless 1364-1419 : Musée Des Beaux-Arts De Dijon, May 28-September 15, 2004, the Cleveland Museum of Art, October 24, 2004-January 9, 2005. [Dijon]: Musée des beaux-arts, 2004. page number: Cat.No.18, p. 66 url: Nys, Ludovic, Dominique Vanwijnsberghe, Xavier Fontaine, and Jacques Debergh. Campin in context: peinture et société dans la vallée de l'Escaut à l'époque de Robert Campin, 1375-1445. Valenciennes: Presses universitaires de Valenciennes, 2007. page number: pp. 186-187 url: Stroo, Cyriel, Dominique Deneffe, Famke Peters, and Wim Fremout. Pre-Eyckian panel painting in the Low Countries. Primitifs Flamands I, II and III. Brussels: [Brepols], 2009. page number: pp. 199-200 url: Fajt, Jiří, and Markus Hörsch, eds. Kaiser Karl IV., 1316-2016: erste Bayerisch-Tschechische Landesausstellung: Ausstellungskatalog. Praha: Národní Galerie v Praze, 2016. page number: Mentioned: p. 448; Reproduced: p. 449, fig. 10.8 url: Kosina, Elena and Ulf-Dietrich Korn. Die Mittelalterlichen Glasmalereien in Niedersachsen: Ohne Lüneburg und die Heideklöster. Berlin: Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, 2017. page number: Mentioned: p. 56-57; Reproduced: p. 58, fig. 27 url: König, Eberhard. Die Très belles heures von Jean de France duc de Berry: ein Meisterwerk an der Schwelle zur Neuzeit. München: Hirmer, 1998. page number: p. 244 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1954.393/1954.393_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1954.393/1954.393_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1954.393/1954.393_full.tif