instance of: painting / genre: religious art / depicts: angel / material used: oil paint

commissioned by: Catholic Church (1) | Urban VIII (1) | Marie de' Medici (1) | Clemens August of Bavaria (1) | Étienne Chevalier (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) | Herbert Cook (5) | France (4) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (3) | Birmingham Museum of Art (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) | Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (1) | Städel Museum (1) | Joséphine de Beauharnais (1) | Schloss Weissenstein (1) | Ettore Cunial (1)

movement: Flemish Primitives (33) | High Renaissance (13) | Baroque (12) | mannerism (8) | Venetian school (6) | Italian Renaissance (4) | Dutch Golden Age painting (4) | Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (3) | academic art (3) | Early Renaissance (3) | Renaissance (2) | Gothic painting (2) | German Renaissance (2) | Gothic art (1) | Caravaggisti (1) | rococo (1) | classicism (1) | Les Nabis (1)

based on: the Lord appears to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre (5) | New Testament (3) | Madonna and Child (3) | Old Testament (2) | Nativity of Jesus (2) | flight into Egypt (2) | Saint George and the Dragon (2) | Jacob wrestling with the angel (2) | Penitent Magdalene (2) | Revelation of John (1) | Judges (1) | Presentation of Jesus at the Temple (1) | Annunciation (1) | Gospel of Matthew (1) | massacre of the Innocents (1) | Madonna at the Fountain (1) | Bride of Christ (1) | Adoration of the shepherds (1)

artist: anonymous (24) | Hans Memling (10) | Raphael (7) | Peter Paul Rubens (7) | Caravaggio (7) | Jan van Eyck (7) | Gerard David (7) | Annibale Carracci (6) | Nicolas Poussin (6) | Titian (6) | Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (6) | Biagio Bellotti (6) | Rembrandt (5) | Guido Reni (5) | 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 (119) | National Museum in Warsaw (26) | Museo del Prado (17) | private collection (15) | Museo Nacional de Arte (11) | Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon (9) | Louvre Museum (9) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (9) | Condé Museum (8) | Musée des Augustins (8) | Hermitage Museum (7) | National Gallery (7) | Goya Museum (6) | Bavarian State Painting Collections (6) | Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (6) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (5) | Gemäldegalerie (5) | Flemish Art Collection (5)

location: Museo del Prado (17) | Paris (16) | National Museum in Warsaw (13) | Room 716 (13) | museum's storage space (12) | Room 710 (12) | Piazzetta (12) | Museo Nacional de Arte (11) | Room 800 (9) | private collection (8) | Condé Museum (8) | Room 709 (8) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (7) | Hermitage Museum (6) | National Gallery (6) | Goya Museum (6) | Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (6) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (5)

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) | 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) | Triptych of the Last Judgement (1)

country of origin: Italy (18) | Spain (3) | United States of America (3) | France (2) | Portugal (1)

exhibition history: Exposition des primitifs flamands à Bruges (14) | Exposition des primitifs français (8) | Europeana 280 (6) | Corps et Ombres (4) | Jheronimus Bosch - Visions of genius (2) | Bode Museum (1) | San Salvador (1) | Contarelli Chapel (1) | Asolo Duomo (1) | Salon of 1864 (1) | The Europe of Rubens (1) | Velázquez (1) | El Siglo de Oro. The Age of Velázquez (1) | Salon of 1750 (1)

main subject: Annunciation (51) | Madonna and Child (36) | Nativity of Jesus (11) | Day of Judgment (9) | Assumption of Mary (8) | Adoration of the shepherds (8) | Sacra Conversazione (7) | Agony in the Garden (7) | Binding of Isaac (7) | Coronation of the Virgin (6) | rest on the flight into Egypt (6) | resurrection of Jesus (5) | Immaculate Conception of Mary (5) | Annunciation to the shepherds (5) | crucifixion of Jesus (4) | Holy Family (4) | birth of the Virgin Mary (4) | Pietà (3)

location of final assembly: Italy (3) | Venice (3) | Seville (2) | Europe (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 (1) | German Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1350–1600 (1)

fabrication method: chiaroscuro (7) | oil painting (4)