The Annunciation

Pieter de Witte (Pietro Candido)  (Netherlandish, Bruges ca. 1548–1628 Munich)

Date:
ca. 1585
Medium:
Oil on wood
Dimensions:
91 1/4 x 68 1/4 in. (231.8 x 173.3 cm)
Classification:
Paintings
Credit Line:
Gift of Fabrizio Moretti, in honor of Keith Christiansen, 2011
Accession Number:
2011.75
  • Catalogue Entry

    Forthcoming

  • Provenance

    Venuti, Malta (by 1895–1927; sold to Rossetto di Alessandro); Giuseppe Rossetto di Alessandro, Rome, later U.S.A. (from 1927); Rossetto family (by 1929–2011; on loan to College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1929–2010; sale, Christie's, New York, January 26, 2011, no. 120, as Attributed to Pieter de Witte, to Moretti); [Fabrizio Moretti, London, 2011]

  • Exhibition History

    Worcester, Mass. Dinand Library, Holy Cross College. "Paintings in the Art Museum," 1929, no. 11 (as by Andrea del Sarto).

110006251

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