material used: oil paint / depicts: angel

instance of: painting (512) | triptych (23) | reredos (11) | altarpiece (5) | diptych (4) | polyptych (4) | winged altarpiece (3) | painting series (3) | cycle of paintings (3) | mural (2) | tondo (2) | study (2) | artwork original version (2) | panel painting (1) | ex-voto (1) | sculpture (1) | envoi de Rome (1) | group of paintings (1)

commissioned by: Étienne Chevalier (2) | Catholic Church (1) | Urban VIII (1) | Marie de' Medici (1) | Clemens August of Bavaria (1) | Nicolas Rolin (1) | Parliament of Paris (1) | Jean de Sedano (1) | Jacopo Pesaro (1) | Alessandro Scaglia (1) | Joan Llull (1)

owned by: Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (6) | France (5) | Birmingham Museum of Art (5) | Herbert Cook (5) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (3) | Catholic Church (2) | National Gallery (2) | John G. Johnson (2) | George Salting (2) | Léon de Somzée (2) | Catalina von Pannwitz (2) | Belgium (1) | Paris (1) | Gustave Doré (1) | Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (1) | Städel Museum (1) | Joséphine de Beauharnais (1) | Schloss Weissenstein (1)

movement: Flemish Primitives (36) | High Renaissance (14) | Baroque (12) | mannerism (9) | Venetian school (6) | Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (5) | Italian Renaissance (4) | Dutch Golden Age painting (4) | academic art (3) | Early Renaissance (3) | Renaissance (2) | Symbolism (2) | Gothic painting (2) | German Renaissance (2) | neoclassicism (1) | Gothic art (1) | Caravaggisti (1) | rococo (1)

genre: religious art (432) | nude (17) | portrait (12) | allegory (12) | landscape art (9) | genre art (9) | history painting (7) | mythological painting (7) | religious painting (5) | three-quarter portait (5) | self-portrait (4) | full-length portrait (4) | still life (3) | group portrait (3) | full-frontal portrait (2) | interior view (2) | miniature (1) | Christian art (1)

based on: the Lord appears to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre (6) | New Testament (3) | Madonna and Child (3) | Old Testament (2) | Revelation of John (2) | Nativity of Jesus (2) | Annunciation (2) | flight into Egypt (2) | Saint George and the Dragon (2) | Jacob wrestling with the angel (2) | Penitent Magdalene (2) | Vita Nuova (1) | Judges (1) | Presentation of Jesus at the Temple (1) | Gospel of Matthew (1) | massacre of the Innocents (1) | Measure for Measure (1) | Madonna at the Fountain (1)

artist: anonymous (30) | Hans Memling (12) | Peter Paul Rubens (9) | Raphael (8) | Gerard David (8) | Caravaggio (7) | Jan van Eyck (7) | Rembrandt (6) | Annibale Carracci (6) | Nicolas Poussin (6) | Titian (6) | Guido Reni (6) | Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (6) | Biagio Bellotti (6) | Hieronymus Bosch (5) | Anthony van Dyck (5) | El Greco (4) | Rogier van der Weyden (4)

part of the series: May (painting) (1)

collection: Department of Paintings of the Louvre (142) | National Museum in Warsaw (29) | private collection (20) | Museo del Prado (17) | Museo Nacional de Arte (11) | Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon (10) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (10) | Condé Museum (10) | Louvre Museum (9) | National Gallery (9) | Smithsonian American Art Museum (9) | Musée des Augustins (9) | Hermitage Museum (8) | Collection of paintings of the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille (8) | Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (7) | Gemäldegalerie (6) | Goya Museum (6) | Bavarian State Painting Collections (6)

location: Paris (17) | Museo del Prado (17) | National Museum in Warsaw (14) | museum's storage space (14) | Room 710 (14) | Piazzetta (13) | Room 716 (13) | Museo Nacional de Arte (11) | private collection (10) | Condé Museum (10) | Smithsonian American Art Museum (9) | Room 709 (9) | Room 800 (9) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (8) | National Gallery (8) | Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille (8) | Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (7) | Hermitage Museum (6)

part of: works by Biagio Bellotti (4) | Christ with singing and music-making Angels (3) | Ciudad Rodrigo altarpiece (3) | Ghent Altarpiece (2) | None (2) | reredos (1) | Virgin of the rocks (1) | San Marco Altarpiece (1) | Baronci Altarpiece (1) | The Haywain Triptych (1) | Visions of the Hereafter (1) | Melun Diptych (1) | Cervara Polyptych (1) | Donne Triptych (1) | Annunciation Triptych (1) | Scenes from the Life of the Virgin (1) | Scenes from the Life of Saint Jerome (1) | peintures de Delacroix à Saint-Sulpice (1)

country of origin: Italy (19) | United States of America (9) | Spain (3) | France (2) | Portugal (1) | Brazil (1)

exhibition history: Exposition des primitifs flamands à Bruges (17) | Exposition des primitifs français (11) | Europeana 280 (7) | Corps et Ombres (4) | Jheronimus Bosch - Visions of genius (2) | San Francisco (1) | Warsaw (1) | Budapest (1) | Verona (1) | Madrid (1) | Strasbourg (1) | Bucharest (1) | Nashville (1) | Bourg-en-Bresse (1) | Bode Museum (1) | San Salvador (1) | Contarelli Chapel (1) | Asolo Duomo (1)

main subject: Annunciation (52) | Madonna and Child (38) | Nativity of Jesus (12) | Day of Judgment (10) | Sacra Conversazione (9) | Assumption of Mary (8) | Adoration of the shepherds (8) | Agony in the Garden (7) | Binding of Isaac (7) | Coronation of the Virgin (6) | Annunciation to the shepherds (6) | rest on the flight into Egypt (6) | resurrection of Jesus (5) | Immaculate Conception of Mary (5) | crucifixion of Jesus (4) | Holy Family (4) | birth of the Virgin Mary (4) | Pietà (3)

donated by: J. P. Morgan (1)

location of final assembly: Italy (3) | Venice (3) | Seville (2) | Europe (1) | France (1) | Germany (1) | Cologne (1) | Asolo (1) | Tournai (1) | Villa Medici (1)

published in: European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born before 1865: A Summary Catalogue (2) | German Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1350–1600 (1) | Flemish Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1)

fabrication method: chiaroscuro (7) | oil painting (5)