The Annunciation

ca. 1490

Gerard David Netherlandish, 1450-1523

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European: Medieval and Renaissance, Level 2, West Wing

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About the Artwork

Title The Annunciation

Artwork Date ca. 1490

Artist Gerard David

Life Dates 1450-1523

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Netherlandish

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Oil on oak panel

Dimensions Unframed: 13 11/16 × 9 3/16 × 1 inches (34.8 × 23.3 × 2.5 cm) Framed: 17 × 12 11/16 × 2 3/8 inches (43.2 × 32.2 × 6 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit City of Detroit Purchase

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 27.201

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Provenance

private collection (Russia);
Ernst Steinmayer (Cologne, Germany);
1923-1927, (Galerie Van Diemen, Berlin, Germany);
1927-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

"Rare David Canvas Bought for $50,000." New York Times 126, no. 25,316 (May 18, 1927): p. 25 (ill.).

Valentiner, W.R. "The Annunciation by Gerard David" Bulletin of the DIA 8, no. 8 (1927): pp. 92-93 (ill.).

Friedländer, M.J. Die Altniederlänndische Malerei, vol. 6. Berlin, 1928, p. 83, no. 175.

Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 1930, cat. 50 (ill.).

Friedländer, M.J. Die Altniederlänndische Malerei, vol. 6. Berlin, 1934, pp. 83, 91, 147, no. 175.

Richardson, E.P. Flemish Paintings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. Detroit, 1936 (fig. 4).

Valentiner, William R. and Alfred M. Frankfurther. Masterpieces of Art: Exhibition at the New York World's Fair 1939, Official Souvenir Guide and Picture Book. Exh. cat., New York World's Fair. New York, 1939, unpaginated, no. 76.

Seventh Anniversary Exhibition of German, Flemish and Dutch Paintings. Exh. cat., William Rockhill Nelson Galleries. Kansas City, 1940, cat. 15.

Lischer, M.L. "The Annunciation by Gerard David. Flemish Late XV, Early XVI Century." Bulletin of the City Art Museum of St. Louis 28, no. 4 (1943): p. 40.

Richardson, E.P., ed. Detroit Institute of Arts Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 36, no. 50.

The Madonna in Art. Exh. cat., Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego. San Diego, 1957, cat. 8.

Le Siècle des Primitifs Flamands. Exh. cat., Groeninge Museum. Bruges, 1960, pp. 144-146, cat. 56 (ill.).

Flanders in the Fifteenth Century. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1960, pp. 184-186, cat. 46 (ill.).

Winkler, F. "Ausstellung Altniederländischer Bilder aus Amerika in Brügge." Kunstchronik 13, no. 11 (November 1960): pp. 312-316.

314 (fig. 3).

Friedländer, M.J. Early Netherlandish Painting, vol. 6, part 2. Leiden and Brussels, 1971, p. 102, no. 175, pl. 189.

Scillia, D.G. "Gerard David and Manuscript Illumination in the Lowlands." unpubl. Ph.D. diss., Case Western Reserve University, 1975, pp. 174-75, 200, no. 14.

Morse, J.D. Old Master Paintings in North America. New York, 1979, p. 91.

Cummings, Frederick J., ed. Selected Works from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1979, p. 92, no. 63 (ill.).

Mundy, E.J. "Gerard David Studies." unpubl. Ph.D. diss., Princeton University, 1980, p. 24.

Harbison, C. "Visions and Meditations in early Flemish painting." Simiolus 15 (1985): p. 116 (fig. 35). [attributed to.]

Ainsworth, M.W, and M. Faries. "Northern Renaissance Paintings. The Discovery of Invention." The St. Louis Art Museum Bulletin 18, no. 1 (1986): p. 15.

De Vos, D. "Gerard David." Nationaal biografisch woordenboek 12. Brussels, 1987, col. 215.

Miegroet, Hans J Van. Gerard David. Antwerp, 1989, pp. 48, 51, 56–57, 280, no. 8 (ill.).

Bauman, G.C. and W. Liedtke. Flemish Paintings in America. Antwerp, 1992, p. 326, no. 171 (ill.).

Hindman, S., et al. The Robert Lehman Collection, vol. 4: Illuminations. Princeton, 1997, p. 97, note 10.

Ellington, D.S. From Sacred Body to Angelic Soul. Washington, 2001, cover.

Picturing Mary: Woman, Mother, Idea. Exh. cat., National Museum of Women in the Arts. Washington, D.C., 2014, pp. 90-91, no. 23 (ill.).

You, Yao-Fen. "Paul Coremans, Edgar Richardson and the 1960 Flemish Art show: A Transatlantic Friendship Forged by a Transatlantic Exhibition." In A Man of Vision, Scientia Artis 15. Brussels, 2019, pp. 172, note 2.

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