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Virgin of the Annunciation

Workshop of: Goro di Gregorio (Italian, active 1300–1334)
Italian (Siena)
Medieval (Gothic)
about 1330
Object Place: Europe, Siena, Italy

Medium/Technique Stone; marble
Dimensions 64.1 x 13.97 x 22.86 cm (25 1/4 x 5 1/2 x 9 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Eugene L. Garbáty
Accession Number46.843
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsSculpture

Provenance1910, Ludwig von Buerkel (b. 1877 - d. 1946), Florence; October 29, 1910, Buerkel sale, Helbing, Munich, lot 4 [see note 1]. Adolf von Beckerath (b. 1834 - d. 1915), Berlin; May 23-26, 1916, Beckerath estate sale, Lepke, Berlin, lot 16, unsold; November 20-21, 1916, Beckerath estate sale, Lepke, Berlin, lot 156 [see note 2]. February 24-25, 1920, anonymous sale, Lepke, Berlin, lot 462. By 1938, Eugene L. Garbáty (b. 1880 - d. 1966), Schloss Alt-Döbern, Niederlausitz (Germany), New York, and East Norwalk, CT [see note 3]; 1946, gift of Eugene L. Garbáty to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 12, 1946)

NOTES:
[1] Attributed in the catalogue to the Master of the Madonna della Spina at Pisa. [2] Attributed in the Beckerath catalogues to Giovanni Pisano. [3] Eugene Garbáty emigrated from Berlin to New York between 1938 and 1939, bringing much of his art collection with him.