The Annunciation

Meester van de Virgo inter Virgines (in 1470 - 1500)

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This composition showing the Annunciation is divided in two vertically. At the right an architectural setting is depicted. At the left we see Marie in a sleeping room. The Immaculate Conception is depicted by means of a ray of light containing a small child with a cross. At the tip of the ray of light the Holy Spirit is visualised in the form of a dove.

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Title	The Annunciation
Material and technique	Oil on panel
Object type	Painting > Painting > Two-dimensional object > Art object
Location	This object is in storage

Dimensions	Width 47,2 cm Height 57,4 cm
Artists	Painter: Meester van de Virgo inter Virgines
Accession number	1568 (OK)
Credits	Acquired with the collection of D.G. van Beuningen, 1958
Department	Old Masters
Acquisition date	1958
Creation date	in 1470 - 1500
Collector	Collector / D.G. van Beuningen
Internal exhibitions	Van Eyck tot Bruegel (1994) The Collection Enriched (2011) De collectie als tijdmachine (2017)
External exhibitions	Nederlandsche Kunst van de XVde en XVIde eeuw (1945) Behind the Curtain. Concealment and Revelation since the Renaissance (2016) Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen @ Rijksmuseum (2023)
Material	Panel > Worked wood > Wood > Vegetable material > Organic material > Material > Material and technique Oil > Paint > Artist's material > Material > Material and technique
Object	Painting > Painting > Two-dimensional object > Art object
Geographical origin	Northern Netherlands > The Netherlands > Western Europe > Europe

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Meester van de Virgo inter Virgines

werkzaam/active Delft circa 1465 - 1495

The name of this painter is unknown. We do know that a number of paintings are by him and that he possibly worked in Delft. At the start of the 20th-century,...

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