Lot 219
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Nicolas Mignard* (1606-1668)
Nicolas Mignard* (1606-1668)

The Annunciation

Details
Nicolas Mignard* (1606-1668)
The Annunciation
red chalk, squared in pen and brown ink, the outlines of the archangel incised
15 x 11 in. (397 x 281 mm.)

Lot Essay

A study, with minor differences, for the altarpiece commissioned in 1640 by Antoine Baratier, Conseiller du Roi, to Mignard for the chapel of the Annunciation in the Cathedral of Viviers, A. Schnapper, Mignard d'Avignon, exhib. cat., Palais des Papes, Avignon, 1979, no. 21. The picture was painted in 1642.