The Archangel Gabriel

ca. 1490 (Renaissance)

53.8 cm 78.3 cm 1.2 cm

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This image of the archangel Gabriel is a fragment from a much larger painting of the Annunciation, which included the Virgin Mary on the right (now in a private collection). The white lily held by the archangel is symbolic of Mary's purity.The perfectly regular profile, the lo...

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Stephen Bourgeois, Cologne [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Peter A. B. Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Philadelphia [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1885 and 1900 catalogues, no. 253]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, prior to 1922 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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