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The Annunciation (from the Life of the Virgin series)

Israhel van Meckenem (German, about 1440/45–1503)
After: Hans Holbein, the Elder (German, 1465–1524)

Medium/Technique Engraving
Dimensions Sheet: 26.6 x 18.2 cm (10 1/2 x 7 3/16 in.)
Credit Line Harriet Otis Cruft Fund
Accession Number21.11756
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Lehrs 054 (I/I); Bartsch 034; Geisberg 20; Koreny (New Hollstein, vols. XXIV and XXIVa) 54
Signed Signed in plate, lower center, below engraved border: . Israhel . V . M .
Marks Watermark: gothic p with flower; verso, in graphite: B34/G20; C7007; (2534)
InscriptionsInscribed in plate, on banderole: AVE GRACIA PLENA; on vase at center left: SNARN
ProvenanceBefore 1917, Eduard Aumüller; June 19 -, 1917, his sale, Paul Cassirer and Hugo Helbing, Berlin, lot 580, to Paul Davidson (b. 1839 - d. 1927?; Lugt 654), London, Vienna, and Berlin; November 22-26, 1920, his sale, C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, lot 1311, to P & D Colnaghi (dealers) for the MFA. (Accession Date: January 1, 1921)