Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

The Annunciation

Jan van der Straet
1523-1605

The Annunciation

4 3/16 x 2 7/8 inches (106 x 73 mm)
Pen and brown ink, blue wash, on paper.
1979.14:1

Gift of Janos Scholz.

Notes
Watermark: none.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on verso, by the artist, in brown ink, "marita e moglia p[er] adorare per stesa".
Associated names
Piancastelli, Giovanni, 1845-1926, former owner.
Brandegee, Edward, former owner.
Brandegee, Mary, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography
Stampfle, Felice, with the assistance of Ruth S. Kraemer and Jane Shoaf Turner. Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries and Flemish Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1991, p. 55, no. 92, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Nineteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, p. 216-17.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department