Museum of Art
Study for the Virgin Annunciate
Artist: Unknown Artist (French, -)
Medium: red chalk on paper
Dimensions: 14 in. x 10 1/4 in. (35.6 cm. x 26 cm.)
Credit Line: Bequest of the Honorable James Bowdoin III
Accession Number: 1811.133
No marks or inscriptions identified for this object
- James Bowdoin III( Collector, Boston) - 1811.
- Bowdoin College Museum of Art( Museum, Brunswick, Maine) 1811- . Bequest
- Old Master Drawings at Bowdoin College
- Bowdoin College Museum of Art. ( 5/17/1985 - 7/7/1985)
- Clark Art Institute. ( 9/14/1985 - 10/27/1985)
- University of Kansas. ( 1/19/1986 - 3/2/1986)
- Art Gallery of Ontario. ( 5/17/1986 - 6/29/1986)
Felice Stampfle was the first to recognize the subject as a study for the Virgin in an Annunciation. Oberhuber thought this sheet French despite its earlier placement as Italian.
Commentary credited to David P. Becker (or not otherwise captioned) appeared in his catalogue Old Master Drawings at Bowdoin College (Brunswick: Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1985).