instance of: painting / genre: religious art / depicts: angel

commissioned by: Pierre Polet (3) | Catholic Church (1) | Urban VIII (1) | Marie de' Medici (1) | Manuel I of Portugal (1) | Clemens August of Bavaria (1) | Eleanor of Viseu (1) | Étienne Chevalier (1) | Philip the Bold (1) | Nicolas Rolin (1) | Parliament of Paris (1) | Gregorio Correr (1) | Jean de Sedano (1) | Jacopo Pesaro (1) | Alessandro Scaglia (1) | Joan Llull (1) | Scuola de San Vincenzo Ferrer e San Piero Martire (1)

owned by: Birmingham Museum of Art (7) | Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (6) | Herbert Cook (5) | France (4) | Catholic Church (3) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (3) | National Gallery (3) | John G. Johnson (3) | Robert Lehman (2) | George Salting (2) | Léon de Somzée (2) | Catalina von Pannwitz (2) | Belgium (1) | Paris (1) | Dominican Order (1) | Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (1) | Lindau (1) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (1)

movement: Flemish Primitives (34) | High Renaissance (16) | Italian Renaissance (14) | Baroque (12) | Early Renaissance (11) | mannerism (8) | Venetian school (6) | Dutch Golden Age painting (5) | Renaissance (3) | Gothic art (3) | Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (3) | academic art (3) | Renaissance art (3) | International Gothic (2) | Gothic painting (2) | Proto-Renaissance (2) | German Renaissance (2) | Caravaggisti (1)

based on: the Lord appears to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre (6) | Madonna and Child (4) | New Testament (3) | Old Testament (2) | Nativity of Jesus (2) | Annunciation (2) | flight into Egypt (2) | Saint George and the Dragon (2) | Jacob wrestling with the angel (2) | Madonna of humility (2) | Penitent Magdalene (2) | Revelation of John (1) | Judges (1) | Presentation of Jesus at the Temple (1) | Gospel of Matthew (1) | massacre of the Innocents (1) | Madonna at the Fountain (1) | Bride of Christ (1)

artist: anonymous (36) | Raphael (10) | Sandro Botticelli (10) | Hans Memling (10) | Gerard David (9) | Peter Paul Rubens (8) | Fra Angelico (8) | Caravaggio (7) | Jan van Eyck (7) | Rembrandt (6) | Annibale Carracci (6) | Nicolas Poussin (6) | Titian (6) | Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (6) | Domenichino (6) | Biagio Bellotti (6) | Andrea Mantegna (5) | Giovanni Bellini (5)

part of the series: Cycle of four altar pieces for the patron saints of Siena (1) | May (painting) (1)

material used: oil paint (428) | canvas (195) | wood (112) | tempera (72) | panel (71) | poplar wood (23) | gold (21) | oak (21) | copper (14) | canvas (11) | vellum (3) | board (3) | fresco (3) | pine (2) | watercolor paint (2) | color (1) | ivory (1) | wax (1)

collection: Department of Paintings of the Louvre (135) | National Museum in Warsaw (27) | Museo del Prado (18) | private collection (15) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (14) | Museo Nacional de Arte (13) | Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon (12) | Louvre Museum (12) | National Gallery (12) | Bavarian State Painting Collections (11) | National Museum of Ancient Art (9) | Gemäldegalerie (8) | Statens Museum for Kunst (8) | Condé Museum (8) | Musée des Augustins (8) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (7) | Hermitage Museum (7) | Birmingham Museum of Art (7)

location: Paris (19) | Museo del Prado (18) | Room 710 (14) | Room 709 (14) | National Museum in Warsaw (13) | Museo Nacional de Arte (13) | museum's storage space (13) | Room 716 (13) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (12) | Piazzetta (12) | National Gallery (11) | Room 800 (9) | Gemäldegalerie (8) | Statens Museum for Kunst (8) | private collection (8) | Condé Museum (8) | Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon (7) | Lisbon (7)

part of: works by Biagio Bellotti (4) | Christ with singing and music-making Angels (3) | Saint Cecilia Cycle (3) | Ciudad Rodrigo altarpiece (3) | Ghent Altarpiece (2) | None (2) | The San Pier Maggiore Altarpiece (2) | reredos (1) | Virgin of the rocks (1) | Maestà (1) | Scrovegni Chapel (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)

country of origin: Italy (23) | Spain (3) | United States of America (3) | Portugal (3) | France (2)

exhibition history: Exposition des primitifs flamands à Bruges (15) | Exposition des primitifs français (11) | Europeana 280 (6) | Corps et Ombres (4) | Jheronimus Bosch - Visions of genius (2) | Santi Giovanni e Paolo (1) | Bode Museum (1) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (1) | San Salvador (1) | Ulmer Museum (1) | Contarelli Chapel (1) | Asolo Duomo (1) | Salon of 1864 (1) | The Europe of Rubens (1) | Cluj-Napoca (1) | Velázquez (1) | El Siglo de Oro. The Age of Velázquez (1) | Salon of 1750 (1)

main subject: Annunciation (73) | Madonna and Child (56) | Nativity of Jesus (13) | Sacra Conversazione (10) | Adoration of the shepherds (10) | Day of Judgment (10) | Agony in the Garden (9) | Assumption of Mary (8) | Binding of Isaac (8) | Coronation of the Virgin (7) | rest on the flight into Egypt (7) | resurrection of Jesus (6) | crucifixion of Jesus (6) | Pietà (6) | Immaculate Conception of Mary (5) | Adoration of the Magi (5) | Holy Family (5) | Annunciation to the shepherds (5)

donated by: Theodore M. Davis (1)

location of final assembly: Italy (4) | Venice (3) | Germany (2) | Florence (2) | Seville (2) | Europe (1) | Cologne (1) | Asolo (1) | Santi Giovanni e Paolo (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) | fresco painting (5) | oil painting (4)