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The Annunciation

Attributed to Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli Italian
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 639
Unusual for showing the annunciation of Christ’s birth as taking place in the Virgin’s bedroom at night by candlelight, this vibrant oil sketch is rapidly painted on a rough panel and incorporates numerous changes. It is an early example of a modello—a proposal or model for a project that could be shown to the patron. Although it is related to an altarpiece Bedoli painted in the 1550s for a church in his hometown, near Parma, its high quality is worthy of Bedoli’s famous cousin, Parmigianino, to whom it was long attributed. It must predate the altarpiece by a considerable amount of time.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: The Annunciation
  • Artist: Attributed to Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli (Italian, Viadana ca. 1505–ca. 1570 Parma)
  • Medium: Oil on wood
  • Dimensions: 33 3/8 x 23 1/8 in. (84.8 x 58.7 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Purchase, Gwynne Andrews Fund, James S. Deely Gift, special funds, and other gifts and bequests, by exchange, 1982
  • Object Number: 1982.319
  • Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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Head of Bearded Man (recto); Head of a Girl (verso), Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli Italian, Red and black chalk (recto); red and black chalk, with pen and gray-brown ink (verso)
Head of Bearded Man (recto); Head of a Girl (verso)
Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli
Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola)
1503–40
Standing Female Figure and Ornamental Framework, Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli Italian, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk; squared in black chalk
Standing Female Figure and Ornamental Framework
Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli
ca. 1547–53
A Putto Seated on a Frame, Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli Italian, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white gouache, over traces of leadpoint or black chalk
A Putto Seated on a Frame
Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli
ca. 1538–40
Madonna and Child, Giovanni Bellini Italian, Oil on wood
Madonna and Child
Giovanni Bellini
late 1480s
The Baptism of Christ, Jacopo Bassano (Jacopo da Ponte) Italian, Oil on canvas
The Baptism of Christ
Jacopo Bassano (Jacopo da Ponte)
ca. 1590

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