Virgin Annunciate
c. 1420-30
Francesco d'Antonio (Italian, 1394-c. 1433)
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Details

  • Artist Name: Francesco d'Antonio (Italian, 1394-c. 1433)
  • Title: Virgin Annunciate
  • Date: c. 1420-30
  • Medium: Tempera and gold leaf on panel
  • Dimensions: 13 x 10-1/4 in. (33.0 x 26.0 cm)
  • Credit Line: The Norton Simon Foundation
  • Accession Number: F.1965.1.041.1.P
  • Copyright: © The Norton Simon Foundation

Object Information

Santa Maria Maggiore, Florence (panels originally formed the pinnacles of Masolino’s altarpiece there, parts of which are now in the Uffizi and the Ingres Museum, Montauban).
Claude la Fontaine, Paris, by inheritance to his grand-daughter;
Dr. Paulette Gauthier-Villars, Paris (sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 29 March 1922, lots 6 and 7, ill., as École Florentine, La Vierge de l’Annonciation and L’Ange de l’Annonciation, unsold and returned to);
Dr. Paulette Gauthier-Villars, Paris, sold 29 March 1929 to;
[Duveen Bros., Paris, shipped to Duveen Bros., New York, no. 29826, as Masolino da Panicale, sold 1965 to];
The Norton Simon Foundation.

[on loan]

  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1969-12-01 to

Nature Transformed

  • Norton Simon Museum, 2004-10-08 to 2005-02-28

[on loan]

  • New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1966-09-19 to

[on loan]

  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1965 to

Lock, Stock and Barrel: Norton Simon's Purchase of Duveen Brothers Gallery

  • Norton Simon Museum, 2014-10-24 to 2015-02-16

[on loan]

  • Detroit Institute of Arts, 1974-06-12 to 1975-10

Art of Tuscany: Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture

  • New York, Duveen Galleries, 1963-11 to 1963-12

The Universe: Creation, Constellations and the Cosmos

  • Norton Simon Museum, 2001-02-04 to 2001-06-04
  • Seldis, Henry, Art in America, p. 97
  • Vasari, Giorgio, Le vite de' pittori, 1878, p. 292
  • L'Annunciazione nei pittori primitivi Italiani, 1939, figs. 50, 51 pp. 45, 46, 52
  • Campbell, Sara, Collector Without Walls: Norton Simon and His Hunt for the Best, 2010, cat. D18a p. 442

Additional Artwork by Artist

Archangel Gabriel Francesco d'Antonio c. 1420-30

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