The Annunciation
manner of Rogier van der Weyden (Tournai c.1399 – Brussels 1464)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1430 - 1499
Materials
Oil on panel
Measurements
800 x 410 mm
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Knightshayes Court, Devon
NT 541103
Caption
The Archangel Gabriel appears from behind to the Virgin Mary announcing she is to bear the son of God. They are in a Netherlandish style room, with contemporary domestic furnishings like the red canopied bed in the background, the sideboard and wooden bench in front of which the Virgin kneels. Through a window with open shutters is a Northern European castle and a river landscape beyond. A vase with a lily, a symbol of the Virgin’s purity, is placed in the foreground. This painting was probably the left-hand side of an altarpiece, possibly from a convent in Segovia.
Summary
Oil painting on panel, The Annunciation manner of Rogier van der Weyden (Tournai c.1399 – Brussels 1464). The Angel Gabriel appearing to Mary in a Rennaisance style room, with a red canopied bed in the background, a window with open shutters showing a castle and landscape beyond, and a vase with a lily in it in the foreground, in a moulded giltwood frame of architectural character. Possibly part of an altarpiece from a convent in Segovia.
Provenance
Sir J C Robinson, bought from him by Sir Francis Cook Baronet in 1879, Bought by Agnews from the Cook collection. Bequeathed to the Knightshayes Gardens Trust by Sir John Heathcoat Amory in 1972.
Makers and roles
manner of Rogier van der Weyden (Tournai c.1399 – Brussels 1464), artist