Philadelphia Museum of Art - Collections Object : The Annunciate Virgin, Saint Andrew with a Donor and His Sons, Saint Catherine of Alexandria with a Donor and Her Daughters, and the Annunciate Angel

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European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection

The Annunciate Virgin, Saint Andrew with a Donor and His Sons, Saint Catherine of Alexandria with a Donor and Her Daughters, and the Annunciate Angel

Wings from a triptych, made into four panels

Made in Netherlands (historical name, 15th-16th century), Europe

Early 16th century

Jan Provost, Netherlandish (active Antwerp and Bruges), first documented 1493, died 1529

Oil on panel
Far left panel: 23 3/8 x 8 3/8 inches (59.4 x 21.3 cm) Left panel: 23 3/8 x 8 1/4 inches (59.4 x 21 cm) Right panel: 23 1/8 x 8 5/8 inches (58.7 x 21.9 cm) Far right panel: 23 1/8 x 8 11/16 inches (58.7 x 22.1 cm)

* Gallery 217, European Art 1100-1500, second floor

Cat. 355

John G. Johnson Collection, 1917

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The Virgin and the Angel Gabriel are painted in grisaille, shades of gray, to imitate the appearance of sculpture in paint. They originally adorned the exterior of an altarpiece when the wings were closed . When open, the altarpiece would have contained a central image flanked by the panels showing a family kneeling beneath their patron saints.

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