The Annunciation
The Annunciation
- Artist
- Master of Retascón
- Artist Dates
- active c. 1420
- Artist Nationality
- Spanish
- Title
- The Annunciation
- Date
- about 1410-25
- Medium
- tempera on panel
- Dimensions
- 117.5 x 64.2 cm (47 x 25-7/8 in)
- K Number
- K1712
- Repository
- Denver Art Museum
- Accession Number
- 1961.176
- Notes
Provenance
Private collection, Bordeaux, France. (Matthiessen, London); on joint account from December 1937 with (Jacques Seligmann & Co., New York); [1] sold to Samuel H. Kress [1863-1955] on 10 May 1950; gift to the Denver Art Museum in 1961, no. 1961.176 (on loan from the Kress Foundation, 1954–61). [1] Jacques Seligmann records, Archives of American Art, Collectors Files Box 204, General Correspondence Box 64, Purchase Receipts, Box 290, document acquisition by Seligmann from Matthiesen in December 1937. Matthiesen does not disclose his source for the picture.