Unknown Italian
Studies for an Annunciation

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Artist Unknown Italian

CultureItalian

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Studies for an Annunciation

Date17th century

MediumRed chalk on buff laid paper

Dimensionsimage (sight): 9 5/8 × 7 15/16 inches (24.5 × 20.2 cm)
frame: 24 1/2 × 20 1/8 inches (62.2 × 51.1 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Vaughn Foundation Fund

Object number2022.745

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Department

Prints and Drawings

Object Type

DRAWINGS, PASTELS & WATERCOLORS

ProvenanceThe artist, late 17th or early 18th century; collection of Sir Robert Ludwig Mond (1867-1938), London (1); [London art market]; Vaughn Foundation, Houston; on long-term loan at MFAH, 1987-2022; gifted to MFAH, 2022.

(1). Following in the footsteps of his collector father, who amassed Quattro- and Cinquecento Italian paintings, Sir Robert Ludwig Mond began acquiring engravings in the late 1880s while at Edinburgh University. A lecture delivered by a professor at Mond’s father’s home about the importance of drawing to Raphael’s Disputa fresco inspired him to begin purchasing drawings as well. He acquired many of the drawings in his collection at the 1914 posthumous sale of works belonging to his friend Charles Newton Robinson, who had in turn inherited them from his father, Sir John C. Robinson. Mond’s collection was not, in general, known to be of the highest quality. In 1937 Tancred Borenius, assisted by Rudolf Wittkower, published Catalogue of the collection of drawings by the old masters formed by Sir Robert Mond, although the attributions in this text were sometimes perhaps overly optimistic. After Mond died, his collection was divided between different members of the family, and many drawings subsequently appeared on the art market.

Exhibition HistoryNone known
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Verso, stamped in brown ink: Lugt 2813a (see Provenance, below)

Watermark: Center of sheet: three nested hills surmounted by a cross

Catalogue raisonnéNone

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