The Annunciation
The Annunciation
- Artist
- Giannicola di Paolo
- Artist Dates
- c. 1460-1544
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Title
- The Annunciation
- Date
- 1510/1515
- Medium
- oil on panel
- Dimensions
- 40.3 x 35.9 cm (15 7/8 x 14 1/8 in)
- K Number
- K302
- Repository
- National Gallery of Art
- Accession Number
- 1939.1.155
- Notes
Provenance
William G. Coesvelt, London, in 1836; [1] (his sale, Christie & Manson, London, 13 June 1840, no. 37, as by Raphael); purchased by Farquhar. [2] Granville Edward Harcourt Vernon [1816-1861], Grove Hall, Nottinghamshire, England, by 1857; by inheritance to his wife, Lady Selina Vernon [later Lady Hervey], until at least 1894. [3] (Count Alessandro Contini-Bonacossi, Florence and Rome); sold 1935 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; [4] gift 1939 to NGA. [1] Included in _Collection of Pictures of W.G. Coesvelt, Esq., of London_, London, 1836: no. 80, as by "Raffaelle". [2] According to an annotated copy of the sale catalogue, noted in Kress collection records, in NGA curatorial files. [3] Lady Hervey lent the painting to exhibitions in 1883 and 1893-1894. [4] Fern Rusk Shapley, _Catalogue of the Italian Paintings_, 2 vols., Washington, D.C., 1979: 1:361-362.