Annunciation to the Virgin, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, 1660 - 1680

Title(s)

Annunciation to the Virgin

Object type

• painting

Object number

SK-A-282

Description

De verkondiging aan Maria. Maria keert zich naar de engel die voor haar knielt. De engel heeft een tak met lelies in de hand. Maria is geknield voor een tafel met een opengeslagen boek. In de lucht de duif van de Heilige Geest en engeltjes op wolken.

Artist

• painter: Bartolomé Esteban Murillo

Dating

1660 - 1680

Physical features

oil on canvas

Material

• oil paint (paint)
• canvas

Technique

paint

Measurements

height 98 cm × width 100 cm
depth 9 cm

What

• the Annunciation: Mary kneeling

Acquisition

purchase 1823

Copyright

Public domain

• Staats- en natievorming in Willem I's koninkrijk (1815-1830), C.A. Tamse, E. Witte, p. 270, noot 19
• L'opera completa di Murillo, Juan Antonio Gaya Nuño, p. 103, cat.nr. 192
• All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam : a completely illustrated catalogue, p. 403
• La pintura española fuera de España (Historia y catálogo), Juan Antonio Gaya Nuño, cat.nr. 1893
• Meisterwerke der Gemäldesammlung des Prado in Madrid : mit 318 Abbildungen und einleitendem Text : 1.-7. Tausend, August L. Mayer, p. 342
• Murillo : des Meisters Gemälde in 287 Abbildungen, August L. Mayer, cat.nr. 46
• Velazquez and Murillo : a descriptive and historical catalogue of the works ... comprising a classified list of their paintings ... a brief account of the lives and works of the disciples of these artists, a bibliography ... with original etchings, Charles B. Curtis, cat.nr. 64
• A catalogue raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch, Flemish and French painters : in which is included a short biographical notice of the artists, with a copious description of their principal pictures : a statement of the prices at which such pictures have been sold at public sales on the continent and in England : a reference to the galleries and private collections, in which a large portion are at present; and the names of the artists by whom they have been engraved; to which is added a brief notice of the scholars and imitators of the great masters of the above schools, cat.nr. 385
• Spaanse schilderijen in het Rijksmuseum, afkomstig van schenkingen van Koning Willem I, P. van Vliet, p. 134
• Kunstkrant Rijksmuseum, vol. 4, nr. 5 (1977)
• Documentatiemap SK