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The Annunciation (Luke 1:26-38)

Drawing
late 16th - early 17th century (made)
Artist/Maker
Bloemaert, Abraham (artist)
Place of origin
Netherlands (drawn)

The Annunciation; Cherubim accompanying the descending dove and the Angel Gabriel, to the Virgin Mary; Drawn with a pen, washed with distemper colour, and heightened with white.

Object details

Category
Drawings
Object type
Drawing
TitleThe Annunciation (Luke 1:26-38) (published title)
Materials and techniques
Drawn with a pen, washed with distemper colour, and heightened with white
Pen
Distemper
Drawing
Wash Technique
Heightening
Brief description
Drawing, 'The Annunciation (Luke 1:26-38)', by Abraham Bloemaert, Cherubim accompanying the descending dove and the Angel Gabriel, to the Virgin Mary; drawn with a pen, washed with distemper colour, and heightened with white; Dutch School; Late 16th - early 17th century.
Physical description
The Annunciation; Cherubim accompanying the descending dove and the Angel Gabriel, to the Virgin Mary; Drawn with a pen, washed with distemper colour, and heightened with white.
Dimensions
  • Height: 462 millimetres
  • Width: 334 millimetres
Of an irregular form, the corners cut off. Original measurements converted from fractional inches into decimal inches (rounded to one decimal place). Dimensions taken from: DYCE COLLECTION. A Catalogue of the Paintings, Miniatures, Drawings, Engravings, Rings and Miscellaneous Objects Bequeathed by The Reverend Alexander Dyce. London : South Kensington Museum, 1874.
Style
Dutch School
Marks and inscriptions
  • Lower right, in brown ink (with the museum’s Dyce inv. no.), 394
  • On verso, at lower centre, in black chalk, A Bloemaert
  • At lower left, by Goll van Franckenstein the elder, in brown ink, 12/72; and below this, in black chalk, No. 21.2.
Credit line
Bequeathed by Rev. Alexander Dyce
Object history
Abraham van Broyel (d. 1759 or before), Amsterdam, his sale, Amsterdam, de Leth, 30ff. October 1759, Album A, lot 30: ‘Door Abraham Bloemaert. De Boodschap aan Maria, met eenige Kindertjes in de wolken, geteekend met Roet en met wit gehoogd, hoog 18½, breed 13¼ duim’ (to Goll van Franckenstein for 41 fl.); Jonkheer Johann Goll van Franckenstein the elder (1722–85), Velzen (his number 1272 in brown ink on verso); possibly Jacob Roelofs (d. 1824 or before), Nijmegen, possibly his sale, Amsterdam, de Vries … Roos, 8 March 1824, Album L, lot 21: ‘De Engel bij Maria; met dito [pen en o.i.inkt], door denzelven [A. Bloemaert]’ (together with lots 19–20 and 22–3 to ‘de Vries’ for 5.15 fl.); Rev. Alexander Dyce (1798–1869), London, by whom bequeathed to the museum (L. Suppl. 153b), 1869.
Subjects depicted
Cherubim
Dove
Clouds
Flowers
Virgin Mary
Gabriel (Archangel)
The Annunciation
Bibliographic references
  • DYCE COLLECTION. A Catalogue of the Paintings, Miniatures, Drawings, Engravings, Rings and Miscellaneous Objects Bequeathed by The Reverend Alexander Dyce. London : South Kensington Museum, 1874.
  • Jane Shoaf Turner and Christopher White, Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2014, vol. I, Cat. 30, illus. p.72.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
DYCE.394

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Record createdJune 8, 2009
Record URL
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