Object details
Accession number
P21e18
Primary Creator
Rembrandt van Rijn
(Leyden, 1606 - 1669, Amsterdam)
Full title
The Annunciation
Creation Date
after 1655
Provenance
Collection of Jonathan Richardson (1667-1745), English painter, writer and collector.
Collection of Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792), English artist and first President of the Royal Academy.
Sold at an unidentified Christie's sale in May 1873 (?).
Entered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection by 1903.
Marks
Impressed (lower right): JR [in monogram] (collector's mark of the English painter Jonathan Richardson (1667-1745), the English painter, Lugt no. 2184)
Stamped (lower right, in black-brown ink): SR / IR (cut off on bottom) in a square (collector's mark of the English painter Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792), Lugt no. 2364)
Inscribed (upper center, verso, in black-brown ink): U-like shape with an uppercase J-shape touching and directly belowing it (an unclear mark; unidenified) [cut off at the top of the sheet]
Inscribed (on a separate slip, in pencil): Rembrandt, from Sir Joshua Reynold's collection. / Sold at Christy's [sic], May 1873.
Dimensions
15.2 x 21 cm (6 x 8 1/4 in.)
Display Media
Brown ink on paper (affixed to another sheet)
Web Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
Permanent Gallery Location
Dutch Room
Bibliography
Catalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1903), p. 16. (as by Rembrandt)
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of the Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), p. 298. (as influenced by Rembrandt)
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 189. (as by a follower of Rembrandt)
Rollin van N. Hadley (ed.). Drawings: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1968), pp. 29, 31-32, no. 14. (as a copy after a lost orignal by Rembrandt made around 1650-1655)
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), p. 206.
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