The Annunciation

Details

Workshop of Benvenuto Tisi, il Garofalo (Ferrara circa 1476-1559)
The Annunciation
oil on panel, arched top
18¾ x 12¼ in. (47.5 x 31 cm.)

Provenance

with Colnaghi, London (Paintings by Old Masters, 7 June-7 July 1978, no. 10, illustrated), from whom purchased on 21 June 1978.

Literature

A.M. Fioravanti Baraldi, Il Garofalo Bevenuto Tisi, Rimini, 1993, p. 206, under no. 136.

Exhibited

Warsaw, Royal Castle, Opus Sacrum, 1990, pp. 136-7, no. 22, illustrated (catalogue by L. Puppi), as Benvenuto Tisi, il Garofalo.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

Considered autograph by Puppi, loc. cit., and dated by him to circa 1505, the present picture is considered by Fioravanti Baraldi, loc. cit., as a 'variante di bottega' of The Annunciation by Garofalo in the Chigi collection, Rome.

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