THE VIRGIN ANNUNCIATE
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BOTTICELLI (SANDRO DI MARIANO FILIPEPI)

THE VIRGIN ANNUNCIATE

1495-1498

canvas, tempera

45 x 13 cm

Inv.: 1610

Both panels were originally part of an altarpiece for a small portable altar. They had been the panels on either side of the central composition. They have been placed together in an old 16th-century frame – not the original one. They were often referred to in the literature as The Annunciation, although they do not present the given subject as a scene. The same portable altar had two other panels with depictions of St. Dominic and St. Jerome, held in the Hermitage. These panels were created during the master's late period.

Provenance: in Florence till the beginning of the 1860s; held in the collection of Count A.S.Stroganov in St. Petersburg after 1862; acquired by the Hermitage Museum from the Stroganov Palace-Museum (Petrograd) in 1922; in the Pushkin Museum since 1928.

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