The Virgin Annunciate
about 1464–1468
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, brush with brown wash
- Dimensions
- 10.2 × 8.4 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-216048
The Virgin Mary kneels at an antique half-column decorated with bucrania and swags, a symbol of the pagan world vanquished by the arrival of Jesus Christ. Mary looks up with astonishment from her reading, indicating that the angel Gabriel may once have been part of the sheet before it was cut down. The artist, probably Lazzaro Bastiani, drew the drapery with elegant simplicity. Subtle patterns of light fall across the Virgin's form, highlighting the folds and pleats in her robe. He used tightly executed washes, modeled with the point of the brush and rendered as hatching in the areas of halftone, such as on the side of the column.
Provenance
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Registry history
- about 1464–1468 — Recorded in the collection of J. Paul Getty Museum — drawings
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