The Annunciation to Joachim
1514
Artist, German, c. 1485/1490 - 1553

Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 21.9 x 14.7 cm (8 5/8 x 5 13/16 in.)
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Accession
1950.20.6
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
William Mitchell [ d. 1908], Australia and London (Lugt 2638); Princes of Liechtenstein, Vienna (Lugt 4398); purchased 20 April 1948 through (Walter Felichenfeldt, Zurich) by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA;[1] gift to NGA in 1950.
[1] Rosenwald describes the acquisitions from Liechtenstein in Recollections of a Collector, 1976, p. 46-47.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1948
Seventy Master Drawings, Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1948-1949, no. 20.
1950
Rosenwald Collection: An Exhibition of Recent Acquisitions, NGA, 1950, no. 51, repro.
1953
Landscape Drawings & Water-colors: Bruegel to Cézanne, Pierpont Morgan Library, 1953, no. 2.
Masterpieces of Graphic Art from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1953-1954, no catalogue.
1954
Masterpieces from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1954, no catalogue.
1955
Master Drawings, Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, 1955.
1956
Masterpieces of Graphic Art. From the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, NGA, 1956.
1966
Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1966.
1968
Good and Bad Angels, University of Notre Dame Art Gallery, IN, 1968, no catalogue.
1969
Prints and drawings of the Danube School: an exhibition of South German and Austrian graphic art of 1500 to 1560, Yale University Art Gallery; City Art Museum of St. Louis; Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1969-1970, no.79, repro.
1978
Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978, pp. pp. 26-27, repro.
1979
Early German Drawings & Prints: Two Recent Acquisitions and Related Works, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1979, no. 9.
1982
Lessing J. Rosenwald: Tribute to a Collector, NGA, 1982, no. 47, repro.
Bibliography
1930
Halm 1930, 36.
1969
Yale UAG 1969, 79.
1982
Fine, Ruth E. Lessing J. Rosenwald: Tribute to a Collector. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1982, no. 47.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 661, no. 1042, color repro.
2016
Brisman, Shira. "Nachrichten aus Nürnberg: The Annunciation as an Epistolary Address." Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 79, no. 2 (2016): 208, nt. 13.
2021
Wheelock, Arthur K., Jr. "In Pursuit of Masterpieces: The National Gallery of Art's Acquisitions from The Prince of Liecthenstein." Artibus et historiae 42, no. 83 (2021): 316, color fig. 5, 317.
Inscriptions
upper center in pen and brown ink: 1514
Markings
verso, lower left, stamped in black ink: William Mitchell (Lugt 2638)
Watermarks
none
Wikidata ID
Q64640535