
The Annunciation
Jean Hey, (the Master of Moulins) · 1490–95
Provenance
Ownership history
- Private collection, Paris, 1906 [according to Friedländer 1925]. Dowdeswell and Dowdeswell, London, 1906–14; sold to Martin A. Ryerson (d. 1932), Chicago, 1914 [invoice dated June 1914, Art Institute Archives.]; on loan to the AIC from 1914; bequeathed to the AIC, 1933.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- London, Grafton Galleries, National Loan Exhibition, 1909–10, no. 76.
- New York, Kleinberger, Loan Exhibition of French Primitives and Objects of Art, 1927, no. 35.
- Detroit Institute of Arts, Seventh Loan Exhibition: French Gothic Art of the Thirteenth to Fifteenth Century, 1928, no. 9.
- London, Royal Academy of Arts, French Art, 1200–1900, 1932, no. 28.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1933, no. 28.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1934, no. 17.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpieces of Religious Art, 1954, pp. 14–15.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Glad Tidings of Great Joy, 1993–94 (no cat.).
- The Art Institute of Chicago, New Light on Old Masters: Research on Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute, 26 June—14 September 2008, no cat.
- Paris, Galeries nationales, Grand Palais, France 1500: entre Moyen Age et Renaissance, 2010–11, no. 67.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Kings, Queens, and Courtiers: Art in Early Renaissance France, 2011, no. 60.
Literature
Published references
- Roger E. Fry, “The Maître de Moulins,” Burlington Magazine 9 (1906), pp. 330–31 (ill.).
- François Monod, “L’Exposition nationale de maîtres anciens à Londres,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 4th ser., 3 (1910), pp. 243–45 (ill.).
- Marcel Nicolle, “Exposition nationale de maîtres anciens à Londres,”
- La Revue de l’art ancien et moderne 27 (1910), p. 54 (ill.).
- JeanGuiffrey and Pierre Marcel, La Peinture française: Les Primitifs,
- vol. 1, Paris, 1913, pp. 18–19, pls. 53–54.
- Salomon Reinach, Répertoire de peintures du moyen âge et de la renaissance (1280–1580),vol. 4, Paris, 1918, p. 54 (ill.)
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings, and Drawings, vol. 2, August 1920, p. 62.
- Martin Conway, The Van Eycks and Their Followers, London, 1921, p. 187.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, and Paintings, May 1922, p. 72.
- Maurice W. Brockwell, review of Conway 1921, in Connoisseur 62 (1922), p. 206.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection, 1925, p. 160, no. 2054.
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