Boucicaut Master
The Annunciation

ArtistFrench, active 1390–1430
CultureFrench
Titles
  • The Annunciation
Datec. 1410
MediumTempera and gilding on vellum
Dimensions6 5/8 × 4 7/8 in. (16.8 × 12.4 cm)
Credit LineSarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Houston
Object numberBF.1991.3.1
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Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition History"Sacred Art from the Old and New Worlds," Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, June 2–September 15, 2002.

"Sacred Scripts: 1,000 Years of Religious Texts," Ellen Noël Art Museum, The University of Texas of the Permian Basin, Odessa, Texas, December 5, 2019–February 23, 2020.

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