Attributed to Pieter de Witte, called Peter Candid (Bruges c. 1548-1628 Munich)
The Annunciation
oil on panel
91¼ x 68¼ in. (231.8 x 173.3 cm.)
Attributed to Pieter de Witte, called Peter Candid (Bruges c. 1548-1628 Munich)
The Annunciation
oil on panel
91¼ x 68¼ in. (231.8 x 173.3 cm.)
Venuti collection, Malta, by 1895, when purchased by Giuseppe Rossetto di Alessandro, Rome, 1927, by whom brought to the United States in the late 1920s, and thence by descent.
Worcester, Massachusetts, College of the Holy Cross, The General Art Company Permanent Exhibition of Paintings by Old Masters, 1929, no. 11, as 'Andrea del Sarto'.
Worcester, Massachusetts, The College of the Holy Cross, on loan 1929-2010.
The present composition is similar to the Annunciation altarpiece that Pieter de Witte painted in 1587 for Duke Wilhelm V of Bavaria's church of St. Michael in Munich. A preparatory drawing for the Munich altarpiece was offered at Christie's, London, 7 July 2010, lot 331.
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